Pressure Groups

Famous quotes containing the words pressure groups, pressure and/or groups:

“I am convinced that our American society will become more and more vulgarized and that it will be fragmentized into contending economic, racial and religious pressure groups lacking in unity and common will, unless we can arrest the disintegration of the family and of community solidarity.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

“The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)