"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it……" — Barbara Tuchman
"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
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68 Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman has 68 quotes on this site.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy…
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard,…
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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no…
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose…
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory…
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material,…
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist…
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Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run…
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Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and…
— Linda Darling-Hammond
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Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of…
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Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance…
— Michael J. Gelb
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Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard…
— Unknown Author
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It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian…
— Rick Perlstein
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Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to…
— John Derbyshire
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The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of…
— James Hansen
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The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a…
— Paul Laxalt
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Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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