Action Quote by Max Weber

“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

“Moreover, the bureaucracy will be of the noblest and most virtuous sort, with no personal, political, or ideological agenda, motivated solely and completely by…

— Mark R. Levin

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

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

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

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

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.

— Newt Gingrich

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

— Hannah Arendt

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

— Bernard Crick

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

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

— Jaime Lerner

“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its efficiency is…

— Hannah Arendt