Best 210 quotes in «bureaucracy quotes» category

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

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

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

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

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.

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

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.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

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

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

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

So many signatures for such a small heart.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

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

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

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

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

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

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.

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

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

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.

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.