Represent Quotes - 3
More Represent Quotes
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
— 1951Two Cheers for Democracy,'Gide and George'.
The best subjects for artists, surely, are animals and plants, grasses and trees; these they can represent, but human beings they ought to leave to poets.
Wilhelm Heinse— 1787 Ardinghello.
To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.
richard alleine— P. 317. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
That this House is appalled, but barely surprised, at the revelations in M15 files regarding the bizarre and inhumane proposals to use pigeons as flying bombs; recognises the important and live-saving role of carrier pigeons in two world wars and wonders at the lack of gratitude towards these gentle creatures; and believes that humans represent the most obscene, perverted, cruel, uncivilised and lethal species ever to inhabit the planet and looks forward to the day when the inevitable asteroid slams into the earth and wipes them out thus giving nature the opportunity to start again.
lord stratford— EDM (Early Day Motion) 1255 proposed by Tony Banks in the House of Commons, 21 May 2004; quoted by Parliamentary Information Management Service
The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
Northrop Frye— Talk 1, The Motive For Metaphor, p. 1
One of the crucial problems we have as a party is that we have brought our leadership in from much too narrow a group. Basically Oxbridge graduates, in particular economics graduates, politics graduates, social scientists and lawyers. We need to reconnect to working-class communities, we have to reconnect to ethnic minority communities and bring up real leaders from within the people we represent.
glasman, maurice, baron glasman— Daily Mail, 30th December 2011 [4]
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
ernesto 'che' guevara— Regarding the IMF, in an interview for Radio Rivadavia of Argentina (3 November 1959)
The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.
jeremiah o'donovan rossa— "Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary", p. 232
The wizards represent all that the true "muggle" most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!
J. K. Rowling— Salon (31 March 1999)
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.
dora russell— Hypatia (1925), Ch. 4
The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China.
jiang zemin— Three Represents introduced by Jiang Zemin.
A signpost doesn't in and of itself represent the way to the village. We have to learn how to take it.
simon blackburn— Chapter Two, Mind, p. 78
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."
epictetus— Book II, ch. 18, Reported in Bartlett's Quotations (1919) as "Be not hurried away by excitement, but say, "Semblance, wait for me a little".
The best-selling magazines to men are Playboy and Penthouse. These represent men’s primary fantasy: access to as many beautiful women as desired without risk of rejection. The best-selling magazines to women are Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, representing the female primary fantasy: better homes and gardens and a family circle.
warren farrell— p. 18. (Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988))
One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
Michel Foucault— "What is an author?" (1984)
It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.
learned hand— Letter to Louis D. Brandeis, dated (22 January 1919).
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
david harvey— Chapter 10, Finance Capital And Its Contradictions, p. 293
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Henry James— Variant text: The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does compete with life.
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
Marshall McLuhan— Commonweal, Volume 58, Commonweal Publishing Corporation, 1953, p. 557
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans , I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language… in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians... To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
max müller— Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas (1888)
The belief that the conditioned derives from the unconditioned, wrong from right, represent the most fatal error and the one most fraught with consequences that is ("et la plus lourde de conséquences qui soit", Fr.) This believe gave rise (or engender) incalculable harms; it has obliterated (or obstructed or cancelled) the religious consciousness and warped the moral judgement; morevoer, it has created an abyss between science and religion, and brought generations of men to atheism.
african spir— p. 40 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.
paul tillich— p. 112 (The Courage to Be (1952))
The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no ‘distinct ideas’ or truths, since they do not make any ‘sensible difference to anybody.’
max horkheimer— Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (1947), pp. 46-47
The industrial designer is found in many fields of industry , which represent a wide diversity of manufactured products. Some of these fields are: Automobiles, airplanes, boats, trains, trailers, trucks; vacuum cleaners, washing machines, toasters, electric fans, lamps; furniture, hardware, electrical equipment; china, glassware, pottery; silverware; garden implements; farm machinery; tools of all kinds;
— Institute for Research (Chicago, Ill.) (1940) Industrial Designing as a Career. p. 3
The peculiar system of alphabetic numerals evolved by him with 33 consonants of the Sanskrit alphabet (Nagari script) denoted various numbers in conjunction with vowels which themselves did not represent any numerical value. For example khyughr (=khu+yu+ghr) is denoted by 2x100 +30x100^2+4x10^3 =4300,000 which is the number of revolutions of the Sun in a yuga (epoch)
— In, p.245 (Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures)
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congress and that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent them and that's all right, it's the exercise of the right of petition but someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.
— Harry S. Truman, speech to the Press and Union League Club, San Francisco, California (October 25, 1956; at p. 19–20 of transcript.
Ackoff (1962)... differentiates between iconic models, which use the same materials but involve changes in scale, analogue models which also involve a change in the materials used in building the model, and symbolic models which represent reality by some symbolic system such as a system of mathematical equations.
— Shatrughna P. Sinha (1993) Instant Encyclopaedia of Geography. Volume 11, p.462
Bolon Yokte' is rarely mentioned but is thought to represent positive change and period endings. However, other scholars have attributed the deity to destruction, thus corraborating the fatalist doomsday view.
— Daniel J. Gansle, in 2012 : Day of Reckoning, p. 218
I believe that Anarchism and Socialism are both needed in human society that they represent two strong trends in human psychology the trend toward liberty and individual variation, and the trend toward cooperation, sympathy and solidarity , and that therefore they should work together. Socialism greatly needs Anarchism as a critic and to keep it from sacrificing the individual and his originality to the domination of the mass.
— John William Lloyd, in Anarchist Socialism (c. 1914-8), published in Liberty, Vol. 19, No. 6 (June 2005), p. 41
What makes this inquest significant is that these prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dust. They are living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power.
— U. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, serving as a judge at the Nürnberg Trials of surviving Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.[ ]
