Bureaucracy Quote by Laurence J. Peter Download Open image “Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.” — Laurence J. Peter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bureaucracy Long Lost Past Status quo Time
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise. — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
“the Left’s current inability to formulate a critique of bureaucracy that actually speaks to its erstwhile constituents is synonymous with the decline of the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient. — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic. — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. — Laurence J. Peter 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 state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one… — John T. Flynn Copy Share
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 law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share
Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and rather than just touch on bullet points or outline points and to speak in large terms about what our four-year objectives are. My guess is that Trump gets in there, rolls up the sleeves, and starts… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share
“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