Bureaucrats Quote by H. L. Mencken

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

— Brooks Atkinson

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

— Evan Esar

“But just imagine how hard you would be to watch if you had a whole office building jammed to the rafters with industrial bureaucrats—men…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

— Henry Latham Doherty

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

— Ludwig von Mises

A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

— Russell L. Ackoff

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

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

— Karl Marx

“Mr. Constant," he said, "right now you’re as easy for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to watch as a man on a street corner…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Mr. Constant,” he said, “right now you’re as easy for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to watch as a man on a street corner…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are…

— Woodrow Wilson

There are thousands of civil servants. In large part, they are brilliant. They work really hard.

— Suella Braverman