Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies…

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

— Ariel Durant

“Our society is mature. Change is instability. That is why every institution we have resists change. To maintain the status quo is our sole…

— Peter F. Hamilton

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further…

— James Salter

“Everything that rises will fall. Empires, societies, governments. None of them lasts forever. Why? Because even though they are the products of change, they…

— Victoria Schwab

“So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the roots are…

— Will Durant

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

— W. Edwards Deming

“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around…

— Philip K. Howard

“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