Bureaucracy Quotes

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

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.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

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.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

So many signatures for such a small heart.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

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.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

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.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

We have to create that strength, and sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy. It just gets in our way.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

Rather than Surrender to Bureaucracy, take it upon yourself to break it

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.