Quotes with representation

  • In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

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  • Caitlin Stasey 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Aristotle A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Simon Hoggart America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
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  • Agnes Martin Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Alexander Maclaren Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anna Louise Strong Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • H. Rap Brown I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Abigail Adams If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Rush Limbaugh If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
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  • Bernard Bailyn In England the practice of virtual representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 167
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Guy Debord In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Benedict Wong In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Susan Sontag In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • John Ruskin No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Saul Landau Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
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  • Charles Baudelaire The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Cass Sunstein There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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