Bureaucracy famous quotes
06-17-2025
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Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.
-- Adrian Levy -
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
-- Albert Einstein -
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.
-- Arthur Helps -
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.
-- Charley Reese -
Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
-- Christopher Dodd -
Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.
-- Darrell Issa -
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
-- Eugene McCarthy -
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
-- Eugene McCarthy -
Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.
-- Evan Esar -
A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
-- Evan Esar -
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
-- Gerald R. Ford -
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
-- Gore Vidal -
This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.
-- Grover Norquist -
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
-- Hortense Calisher -
The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
-- Indira Gandhi -
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
-- Jaime Lerner -
Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
-- James Fallows -
It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
-- Jasper Fforde -
We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.
-- Jennifer Pahlka -
We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.
-- John Sununu -
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
-- Leon Trotsky -
Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.
-- Malcolm Forbes -
Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
-- Martha Gellhorn -
Remove the document—and you remove the man.
-- Mikhail Bulgakov -
I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
-- Nicholas II of Russia -
We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.
-- Nong ?uc Manh -
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
-- Oscar Wilde -
The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.
-- Philip Berrigan -
I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
Rather than Surrender to Bureaucracy, take it upon yourself to break it
-- Scott Belsky -
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy
-- Sean Parker -
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
-- William Blake -
Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.
-- David Cay Johnston -
Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
-- Walter Walker -
America isn't Wollman Rink, but I think almost everybody watching, and certainly the people who voted for him, have had frustrating experiences with bureaucrats and bureaucracy, private as well as public, pushing them around.
-- Paul Solman -
The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.
-- Robert Baer
