Bureaucracy Quote by James Cook Download Open image “Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.” — James Cook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bureaucracy Change Nature Progress
Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities.… — John Scarlett Copy Share Image
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
Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace. — Widad Akrawi 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
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week,… — James Cook Copy Share Image
The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse. — James Cook 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