Bureaucracy Ethics Quotes by Gordon R Dickson

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• Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
• Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want…
• A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it…
• Each man is a tool in his own hands. Mankind is a tool in its own hands.
• The soldier loves action; the politician the sound of his own voice.
• Progress is made by the friction of opposites. The human creature climbs upward using first his right hand and then his left.
• When you pick up an inch of the present to move it, you also pick up several thousand years of history.
• A bureaucracy is like a living creature, with instincts of self-preservation and an urge to control all things for its own protection.
• The Spanish language has a number of ... poetically insulting curses to throw at your enemy; and the words 'su madre' are…
• Intelligencecall it intellectual capacityalone can be helpless in a situation where knowledge or experience is required.
• The man who hints that you are a thief is almost sure to have a large, vulnerable area of dishonesty in his…
• An experts a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholars someone who knows all there is thats available…

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