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.

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

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

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.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

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

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.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

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.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

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.

So many signatures for such a small heart.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

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.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

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

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