The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain.… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws,… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
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