By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes. — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
“As bureaucracies accumulate power, they become immune to their own mistakes.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy. — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
“One tactic of bureaucracies is to so fill the boss’s time with meetings that he or she has no time to meddle… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing. — John Sununu Copy Share Image
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that… — Josh Barnett Copy Share Image
Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“One major reason why radical economic reform was almost impossibly difficult to introduce in the Soviet Union was the strength of vested… — Archie Brown Copy Share Image
“Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Our world today is in the grip of anti-capitalism. State bureaucracies ruling over anti-market policies have grown into ideological and political elites… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is important to remember that bureaucratic politics and rivalry are not just matters of competing for primacy in foreign policy -… — Howard J. Wiarda Copy Share Image
“In bureaucracies everywhere, when someone’s interests are threatened by a cycle of reform, one time-honored resistance strategy is to dig up dirt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, like bureaucracies everywhere, government officials in Singapore are uncomfortable with groups who appeal successfully to the public's sense of idealism, and… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
“All the present bureaucracies of political governments, great religious organizations, and all big businesses find that physical success for all humanity would… — Richard Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Citizenship in modern states means access to bureaucracy. Bureaucracy has the reputation of killing Jews; it would be closer to the truth… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In a world of gigantic administrative bureaucracies both public and private, searching for a new path might seem like hoping for a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Bureaucracies can be—and usually are—appallingly inefficient, but efficient bureaucrats can—and usually do—find ways to circumvent the regulations.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes. — Chris Terrio Copy Share Image
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives. — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop. — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they… — Darrell Issa Copy Share Image
We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
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