Best 210 quotes in «bureaucracy quotes» category

I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

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

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

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.

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

[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.

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.

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

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

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

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

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

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.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

So many signatures for such a small heart.

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

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

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

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

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 only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity to Italy.

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

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.

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

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

67–If talking about the bureaucracy takes the place of talking about sports, getting involved with the bureaucracy takes the place of exercise. Every French man and woman is engaged in a constant entanglement with one ministry of another, and I have come to realize that these entanglements are what take the place of going to a gym where people actually work out. Three or four days a week you're given something to do that is time-consuming, takes you out of yourself, is mildly painful, forces you into close proximity with strangers, and ends, usually, with a surprising rush of exhilaration: 'Hey, I did it.' Every French ministry is, like a Nautilus machine, thoughtfully designed to provide maximum possible resistance to your efforts, only to give way just at the moment of total mental failure. Parisians emerge from the government buildings on the île de la Cité feeling just the way New Yorkers do after a good workout: aching and exhausted and on top of the world.

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

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

After Napoleon's 1815 defeat at Waterloo, Europeans had created nation-states in the image and likeness of Napoleon. The new states became the foci of popular affection, even worship. All organized themselves as Napoleon had France, and as Hegel had prescribed, with every house numbered so that bureaucratic government could pass its science to and collect sustenance from each. The states became the purveyors of education and sources of authority. They fostered the myth that people within their borders formed distinct races with different geniuses and destinies. All partook of Charles Darwin's ideology that life is an evolutionary struggle in which the fittest survive.

A bureaucrat who said no to everything rarely got in trouble.

After the loss of its eastern wing, which became Bangladesh in 1971, Pakistan has been completely dominated by one ethnic group, the Punjabis, who tend to favour the ideological model for Pakistan and are heavily represented in the military, the media and the bureaucracy.

All rich countries now employ legions of functionaries whose primary function is to make poor people feel bad about themselves.

A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda," Humphrey explained. "It is perhaps the second-most important tool in ensuring continued funding." "And the most important?" "A friend on the Appropriations committee.