Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 8

We need to tackle the bureaucracy that's holding our education system back.

— Mark Robinson

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

— Walter Bagehot

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

— Harmony Korine

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

— Oscar Wilde

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

— Anonymous

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

— Brooks Atkinson

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

— Dale Dauten

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there…

— Jean Giraudoux

I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn't have…

— Mark Cuban

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has…

— John McAfee

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq…

— Peter T. King

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly…

— Tim Curry

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell… Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms…

— William S. Burroughs

My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to…

— Hermann Goring

To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government…

— L. Neil Smith

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for…

— Marshall McLuhan

There's a long history of presidents coming in, saying they're gonna to take on the bureaucracy. What they really mean is they're…

— Brian Balogh

We need to ensure that the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the financial system are actually doing their jobs.…

— Carly Fiorina

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board,…

— Samuel J. Palmisano

One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for…

— George Packer

I think we have in Germany too many sickness funds. We started with more than 1,000 sickness funds. But the fewer sickness…

— Karl Lauterbach

My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

— Chris Terrio

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

— Aneel Bhusri

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

— Hannah Arendt

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

— David Halberstam

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

— James Surowiecki

The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.

— Aneel Bhusri

“Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it’s an almost losing battle against it.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

— Bruce Rauner

We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.

— Arvind Kejriwal

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

— James Fallows

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— William Blake

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

— Charles W. Pickering

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Noam Chomsky