Best 210 quotes in «bureaucracy quotes» category

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.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

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

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

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

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

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

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.

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

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

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

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

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

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

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

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

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.

I think we have in Germany too many sickness funds. We started with more than 1,000 sickness funds. But the fewer sickness funds there are, the less bureaucracy and the easier the system is to operate. But it is important that the best sickness funds survive.

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.

Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.

[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

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

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

So many signatures for such a small heart.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

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

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

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

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

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

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

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

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

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

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

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