Quotes about Representation
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
— John Adams
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
— Isabel Allende
The artist...is the voice of the people.
— Alice Walker
As priests, we represent our nations, our neighborhoods, our families and our friends before the throne of Almighty God.
— James Goll
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
— Edmund Burke
A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement
— Edmund Burke
The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order. This power is called imagination.
— Edmund Burke
The distance which many of the representatives will be obliged to travel, and the arrangements rendered necessary by that circumstance, might be much more serious objections with fit men to this service, if limited to a single year, than if extended to two years.
— Alexander Hamilton
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there.
— Fr. Richard Rohr