Bureaucracy Quote by Evan Esar Download Open image “A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.” — Evan Esar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bureaucracy Bureaucrats Fit Inspirational Love Officials
The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes." — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We're all as bureaucrats, or people who are - who work for state, every year we present our declaration of our incomes and expenditures… — Dmitry Peskov Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Let those who want to, arrive Let those who want to, leave Let those who want to, stay With out harm to me or… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy,… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
If there's one thing you should know about me it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image