"It seems to me that there must be……" — Barbara Ehrenreich
"It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses."
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117 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees…
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The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and…
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right…
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy…
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Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
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Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be…
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Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick…
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