Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 19

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

— Arthur Capper

“All we do is disguise our weak politics behind a powerful bureaucracy and disguise our powerful bureaucracy behind weak political decision making.”

— Ryan Gelpke

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on…

— John Scarlett

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as…

— Leon Trotsky

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of…

— Simone Weil

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way…

— Jennifer Pahlka

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to…

— Gary Larson

“These meetings, they're like thieves—they follow you around, wait until you're not looking, and pounce.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they…

— Frank Herbert

The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

— Ian Somerhalder

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

— Robert A. Heinlein

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay…

— Jennifer Pahlka

“Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly…

— David Brooks

There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but…

— John Fund

“The NSA?" "Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery." Venkat shrugged. "It's…

— Andy Weir

Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

— Theodore Beale

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest…

— Karl Marx

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

— Charles W. Pickering

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

— Carly Fiorina

We need to redirect dollars from bureaucracy.

— Mark Robinson

I think what's happening is companies are trying to maximize shareholder value and I think they realized that if they could hire…

— Nick Corcodilos