Bureaucracy Quotations

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

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.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

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

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

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

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.

An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected to it. It's a super-organism of the American state. But there's also a parallel city in there where normal people live.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

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

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

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

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

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

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

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

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

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

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.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

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

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

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

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

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

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

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

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

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff.

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

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

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

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

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

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

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

So many signatures for such a small heart.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

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