"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny:……" — Edward Abbey
"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets."
More Clerks Quotes
- It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. — Bertolt Brecht
- All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that… — Ludwig von Mises
- Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul… — Alexander Pope
- Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys. — Sam Walton
- A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. — Albert Camus
- This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual;… — Rajneesh
- The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.… — Sam Walton
- [About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his… — Augustus De Morgan
- Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell… — Thomas Pynchon
- We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been… — Ronald Reagan
- I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous… — Ramsey Campbell
- I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest… — Anupam Kher