"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become……" — Mary McCarthy
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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81 Quotes by Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy has 81 quotes on this site.
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In violence, we forget who we are
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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in…
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was…
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or…
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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a…
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
— Michele Bachmann
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
— Christopher Bond
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The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant…
— Madeleine Albright
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right…
— Herman Cain
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government…
— Chris Chocola
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy…
— Francesca Annis
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Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.
— Theodore Beale
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
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Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be…
— Reginald Fessenden
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths,…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick…
— William G. Bainbridge
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