Quotes About Pressure Groups

#1. When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

Diane Ravitch

#2. The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

Wendell Willkie

#4. As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries.

Hassan Rouhani

#5. Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and silencing the independent economists. But truth persists and works, even if nobody is left to utter it.

Ludwig Von Mises

#6. Groups satisfy our brain's natural inclination to make sense of hordes of people we encounter and observe. This quality is so inherent that children intuitively understand the need to form groups without adults having to teach them.

Alexandra Robbins

#7. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

#8. the greatest humourists are deep down usually angry men, who know that human nature ignores tirades, but is responsive to laughter.

Frank McLynn

#9. Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.

Alexandra Robbins

#10. Megan's eyes could have drilled holes through butter

Brandon Sanderson

#11. It was our hands that were supposed to be full, of the future; which could be held but not seen. I

Margaret Atwood

#12. Courts musn't interfere and separate families if they could help it. Said he'd druther not take a child away from its father.

Mark Twain

#13. The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

Lauren Greenfield

#14. Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy

Dmitry Medvedev

#15. First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

Paul Feyerabend

#16. A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company.

John Gerzema

#17. I agree with Abhijit Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way - but it must be accompanied by continued pressure to break down barriers to access to information, so that our tolerance isn't exploited to further the ends of totalitarian religious groups.

Daniel C. Dennett

#18. Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

Leonard Read

#19. This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

Lech Walesa

#20. If you want to punish a sage lock him in the same room with a fool.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

Jimmy Carter

#22. Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.

Nandita Das

#23. I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

Yann Martel

#24. No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.

Charles E. Wilson

#25. I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

Emma Donoghue

#26. Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who have another agenda yet:
to cater to the temporary whims and fads of the public and the press.

P. J. O'Rourke

#27. What if you could be young again and were able to undo the things that were done that made you into the person you would later become. But then who would you be.

Robert B. Parker

#28. Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

Alexandra Robbins

#29. Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

Alexandra Robbins

#30. The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.

Michael J. Fox