When you start separating people from their rivers, what…

People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they…

— Kathleen Winter

“She was not a person who froze someone’s character in her mind, calling this one egotistical and that one not nearly confident enough and…

— Kathleen Winter

The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now…

— Linda Gordon

Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

— Sam Hunt

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

— Susan Cain

It's all about lines. The finish line at the end of residency, waiting in line for a chance at the operating table, and then…

— Anonymous

“Most people, the minute they meet you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear…

— Elif Batuman

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

— Isabel Allende

[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way…

— Gillian Tett

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 anything. I…

— Julio Torres

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…

— Slavoj Žižek

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It…

— Camille Paglia

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no…

— Winston Churchill

There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy,…

— John Hickenlooper

When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the…

— John T. Flynn