representative quotes

I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. Asfaraspossible Ikneeldownandtell these beadsevery day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

- (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
  Election campaign speech, Salford.

I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on. I know not why it should be a matter of congratulation that persons who are already richer than any one needs to be, should have doubled their means of consuming things which give little or no pleasure except as representative of wealth.

-John Stuart Mill
  Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups† Literary intellectuals at one poleat the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

- C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron Snow
  TheTwo Cultures, Rede Lecture.