Book Quote by Diane Ravitch

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…

— Paul Feyerabend

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

“Like I told you, I’m not interested. I think the party is mostly a means of advancing one’s career anyway.” “Exactly, and your decision…

— Maureen F. McHugh

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…

— Ayn Rand

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…

— J. Paul Getty

Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning…

— Matt Ridley

With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak…

— Cal Thomas

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…

— Ludwig von Mises

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of…

— Leonard Read

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most…

— H. L. Mencken

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what…

— Lauren Greenfield

The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies…

— Karl Popper

A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but it is…

— Mancur Olson

Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting…

— Ludwig von Mises