Quotes about Representation

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

As priests, we represent our nations, our neighborhoods, our families and our friends before the throne of Almighty God.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

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.

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.

I'm just like a photographer or a director. Of course I have an opinion, but I don't think my opinion, or what I want to say... is so obvious 'cause that's not my job. My job is just to give a point of view, not more than that.

I'm always proud to play for Switzerland, and that will always be something really special.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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.