Ability Quote by Max Weber

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised…

— Max Weber

Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it…

— Chris Fussell

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

— Robert Conquest

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

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed…

— Alan Keyes

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to…

— Max Weber

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

“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

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

The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out…

— Hannah Arendt

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse…

— Jonathan Raymond

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

— Jeff Bezos