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261 Bureaucracy quotes by 212 unique authors
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The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper…
— Joseph Conrad
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It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest…
— Giovanna Cau
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When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure…
— Michael Gove
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I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment…
— Kenny Guinn
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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
— Paloma Faith
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I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a…
— William Hague
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
— Gary Hamel
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared…
— Aldous Huxley
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
— Aldous Huxley
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
— Franz Kafka
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The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.
— Rush Limbaugh
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Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
— Bill Maher
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We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
— Theresa May
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Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more…
— Theresa May
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
— Mary McCarthy
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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
— John Stuart Mill
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When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were…
— Brian Mulroney
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
— Richard M. Nixon
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This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the…
— Grover Norquist
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Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.
— Ross Perot
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
— Laurence J. Peter
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