Bureaucracy Quotes · Page 5

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

— Mary McCarthy

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

— Michel Foucault

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

— Charley Reese

“Bureaucracy, as Hannah Arendt defined it: the rule of nobody. Roll”

— Joseph Heller

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

— Ernest Hemingway

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

— Anonymous

If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it

— Anonymous

“Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.”

— Tom Clancy

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they…

— Darrell Issa

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having…

— Russell Means

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his…

— Eduardo Galeano

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the…

— Benigno Aquino III

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can…

— Thomas Sowell

Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy.…

— Joni Ernst

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed…

— Grover Norquist

That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by…

— Michael K. Simpson

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They…

— Ronald Reagan

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…

— Julio Torres

“Vast organisations produce a sense of impotence in the individual, leading to a decay of effort. The danger can be averted if…

— Bertrand Russell

“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private…

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But…

— Bill O'Reilly

Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS…

— David Cay Johnston

Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations,…

— Victor Davis Hanson

All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling…

— Jay Griffiths

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

— Ludwig von Mises

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

— Anonymous

It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.

— Alexander Ostrovsky

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

— Charles E. McKenzie

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

— Jasper Fforde

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

— Ronald Reagan

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

— Walter Walker

Our own bureaucracy should not and cannot get in the way of our efforts to get people sheltered.

— London Breed

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff.

— Terry Gross

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

— Walter Bagehot

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

— Anonymous

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency

— Anonymous

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