Pressure Groups Quotes

11 quotes by 10 authors

• Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government… — Ayn Rand
• 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… — Ludwig von Mises
• It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies,… — Albert J. Nock
• The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain… — Karl Popper
• 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… — Ludwig von Mises
• Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In… — J. Paul Getty
• The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
• 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… — Diane Ravitch
• Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than… — Matt Ridley
• 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
• 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… — Wendell Willkie

Who Wrote These Pressure Groups Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 11 Pressure Groups Quotes as follows:

• 2 Pressure Groups Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
• 1 Pressure Groups Quote by Ayn Rand
• 1 Pressure Groups Quote by Albert J. Nock
• 1 Pressure Groups Quote by Karl Popper
• 1 Pressure Groups Quote by J. Paul Getty
• 1 Pressure Groups Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Pressure Groups Quote by Diane Ravitch
• 1 Pressure Groups Quote by Matt Ridley
• 1 Pressure Groups Quote by Hassan Rouhani
• 1 Pressure Groups Quote by Wendell Willkie