“An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.” ThinkingRealitySchoolPoliticalSocialChurchLinesBoysSupportGroupsMembersBenefitsVariousTrialsTroopsCommitteesOptimistJurySocial SystemsBoy ScoutSupport GroupsCongressional Committees Author:Jack McDevitt
“The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.” PeopleShouldWholeWisdomPoliticsTermInterestEconomyGroupsMembersOfficeServantBoardsLiberalismRepresentativesReservesCommitteesShort TermFederal ReservePublic InterestPublic ServantsInterest Groups Author:Wright Patman
“Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.” DifferentWholeGovernmentInterestActingGroupsMultitudesCommitteesBusinessmanBehalfAppearingDivergentBourgeoisieComposites Book:Political Econ of Growth Source: Political Econ of Growth
“People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.” PeopleReligiousCompanyGroupsHuman NatureCollegeGardenClubsExecutivesCombatElitesCommitteesCompetingMarineSectsFraternityCollectivityReligious Sects Author:E. O. Wilson