Best Bureaucracy Proverbs
261 Bureaucracy quotes by 212 unique authors
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
— Oscar Wilde
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
— Albert Einstein
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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
— James C. Collins
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The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.
— Lev Grossman
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The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be…
— Alain de Botton
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Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the…
— Simone Weil
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
— Jasper Fforde
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After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant…
— Joe Dunthorne
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Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make…
— Frank Herbert
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Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and…
— Kim Harrison
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God, it stinks,” I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. “It’s the stench…
— Kim Harrison
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Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.
— Richard M. Nixon
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As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both…
— Jerry Brown
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Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete…
— Albert Einstein
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In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
— Jaime Lerner
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We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
— Jennifer Pahlka
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should…
— Camille Paglia
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
— Harmony Korine
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No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the…
— Paul Watson
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Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65,…
— Virginia Postrel
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Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and…
— Benigno Aquino III
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well…
— B.F. Skinner
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