List Of Pressure Groups Quotes

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.

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 By Pressure Groups. Its Methods Range From Mere Social Courtesies And Cocktail-party Or Luncheon "friendships" To Favors, Threats, Bribes, Blackmail.

Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.

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.

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.