Functionaries Quotes

27 quotes by 23 authors

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these… — Thomas Jefferson
Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to… — Tim Field
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be… — Thomas Jefferson
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent… — Thomas Jefferson
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot… — George Bernard Shaw
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and… — Edward Abbey
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled… — Herman Melville
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. — Walter Lippmann
State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers,… — James Connolly
Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. — Ambrose Bierce
I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and… — Fritz Sauckel
Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats! — Kurt Vonnegut
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this… — Carl Jung
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible. — E L Doctorow
On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In the Press, and… — Denis Fahey
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not… — Theodor Adorno
Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should… — Thomas Jefferson
Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that… — James K. Polk

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