Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 6

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

— Laurence J. Peter

Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

— Robert H. Meltzer

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

— Donald Trump

“Bureaucracy, as Hannah Arendt defined it: the rule of nobody. Roll”

— Joseph Heller

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

— Jack Welch

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

— Ernest Hemingway

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

— Anonymous

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

— Mary McCarthy

“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a…

— Isabel Allende

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient,…

— Charlie Crist

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid…

— Lee Iacocca

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work…

— Jasmine Cresswell

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

— Darrell Issa

administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!

— Mary Parker Follett

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

— Ilana Mercer

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the…

— Benigno Aquino III

The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved.…

— Bertrand Russell

The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to…

— Thomas Sowell

It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in…

— Philippe Falardeau

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They…

— Ronald Reagan

Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities,…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Vast organisations produce a sense of impotence in the individual, leading to a decay of effort. The danger can be averted if…

— Bertrand Russell

If there's one thing you should know about me it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to…

— Julio Torres

Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But…

— Bill O'Reilly

“Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bureaucratic growth and statification were viewed as a vain counterdrift to…

— Murray Bookchin

“Once government undertakes to determine the whole wage structure and is thereby forced to control employment and production, there will be a…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The first law of Bureaucracy is, show no curiosity outside your cubicle. It’s like the first rule of every army that’s ever…

— Charles Stross

“This, not incidentally, is another perfect setting for deindividuation: on one side, the functionary behind a wall of security glass following a…

— Nick Harkaway

“The obvious pollution occurring in many places - worst of all, in the planned societies- has encouraged the growth of the environmental…

— Jacqueline Kasun

“It is important to remember that bureaucratic politics and rivalry are not just matters of competing for primacy in foreign policy -…

— Howard J. Wiarda

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

— Frank Herbert

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

— Charley Reese

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

— Michel Foucault

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

— Walter Walker

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

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Ronald Reagan

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

— Andrew Lansley

Our own bureaucracy should not and cannot get in the way of our efforts to get people sheltered.

— London Breed

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

— Walter Bagehot