Bureaucracy Quote by Jaime Lerner Download Open image “Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.” — Jaime Lerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bureaucracy Everything Fungus Like
A bureaucracy is like a living creature, with instincts of self-preservation and an urge to control all things for its own protection. — Gordon R Dickson Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail… — Karl Marx 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
Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of… — Jaime Lerner 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