Bureaucracy Quotes

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

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

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

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.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

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.

So many signatures for such a small heart.

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

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

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.

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

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

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

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.

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

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

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 is adept at protecting its nest.

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.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

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

We have to find the origin of the problem. The origin of the problem in many African countries is that you've got state bureaucracies which are too bloated.

The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial.

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.

One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.