Bureaucracy Quote by Erich Fromm

“Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent…

— Ludwig von Mises

In times of great chaos, people tend to follow a man with a plan.

— Jeffrey Fry

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

— Herbert Agar

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

— John Lancaster Spalding

It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can…

— Herbert Simon

Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a…

— Al Alvarez

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and…

— Michel de Montaigne

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he…

— A. P. Herbert

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore…

— Milan Kundera

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

— Edward Bernays