Pressure Groups Quotes

• Los del grupo popular dicen que no hay presión de grupo porque están en la cima de la cadena alimentaria. En realidad, lo que hacen es comerse a todos los demás.

  Lauren Greenfield

  People, Peer Pressure, Peers

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• A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but it is less formidable when questions which divide the entire nation are involved, for then it must take on organized labor and other large organized groups. The business community in the aggregate is for this reason not uniquely effective as a pressure group.

  Mancur Olson

  Powerful, Community, Organized Labor

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION”, p.147, Harvard University Press

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• Bismarck había enseñado astutamente a los partidos a no aspirar a un atractivo nacional, sino a representar intereses. Bajo la República siguieron siendo grupos de presión de clase o sectoriales. Esto fue fatal, ya que hizo que el sistema de partidos, y con él el parlamentarismo democrático, pareciera un factor de división más que de unificación. Y lo que es peor: los partidos nunca produjeron un líder que apelara más allá de los estrechos límites de sus propios seguidores.

  Paul Johnson

  Party, Class, Leader

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• 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

  Educational, Party, Independent

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• El "lobbying" es la actividad consistente en intentar influir en la legislación ejerciendo una influencia privada sobre los legisladores. Es el resultado y la creación de una economía mixta de gobierno por grupos de presión. Sus métodos van desde meras cortesías sociales y "amistades" de cóctel o almuerzo hasta favores, amenazas, sobornos, chantajes.

  Ayn Rand

  Party, Government, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.241, Penguin

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• 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

  Wise, Book, Decision

  "Some educators take issue with textbooks" by Casey Wian, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2003.

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• 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 Leer

  Political, Orbit, Type

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• 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 the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dark, Focus, Special

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• 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, form pressure groups, start revolutions, change forms of government, tinker at political theory. The fact that these expedients have been tried unsuccessfully in every conceivable combination for 6,000 years has not noticeably impaired a credulous unintelligent willingness to keep on trying them again and again.

  Albert J. Nock

  Agency, Government, Years

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• 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 fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.

  Matt Ridley

  Real, Ocean, People

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• 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

  Political, Research, World

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.3, Verso

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• With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.

  Cal Thomas

  Cristiano, Religioso, Gobierno

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• El poder legislativo, al igual que el ejecutivo, ha dejado de ser siquiera la criatura del pueblo: es la criatura de grupos de presión, y la mayoría de ellos, hay que manifestarlo, son de dudosa sabiduría y aún más dudosa honestidad. Las leyes ya no se hacen mediante un proceso racional de debate público; se hacen mediante un proceso de chantaje e intimidación, y se ejecutan de la misma manera. El legislador típico de hoy es un hombre totalmente desprovisto de principios...

  H. L. Mencken

  Honestidad, Hombres, Ley

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• 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 the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Clever, Agency

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• La teoría de la conspiración de la sociedad... [es] un resultado típico de la secularización de una superstición religiosa. La creencia en los dioses homéricos cuyas conspiraciones explican la historia de la guerra de Troya ha desaparecido. Los dioses son abandonados. Pero su lugar lo ocupan hombres o grupos poderosos -siniestros grupos de presión cuya maldad es responsable de todos los males que padecemos- como los Sabios de Sión, o los monopolistas, o los capitalistas, o los imperialistas.

  Karl Popper

  Religioso, Poderoso, Guerra

  "La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos: Hegel y Marx".

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• El patrón oro hace que el poder adquisitivo del dinero sea independiente de los cambios, las ambiciones y las doctrinas de los partidos políticos y los grupos de presión. Esto no es un defecto del patrón oro; es su principal excelencia.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Partido, Independiente, Ambición

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). "Human Action", p.585, Lulu Press, Inc.

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• It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Circles, Goal, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). "La acción humana: tratado de economía".

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• 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 are appeased or bought off, the resulting elephantine legislation typically looks nothing like what was intended. In short, big-government medicine usually doesn't work on big-government sickness. If President Obama wants 'comprehensive' change, it would be better simply not to spend any more money we don't have.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Horse, Mean, Government

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