Responsibility Quote by Philip K. Howard Download Open image ““Overthrow the bureaucracy, and return to a system based on human responsibility.”” — Philip K. Howard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Responsibility
“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 Copy Share Image
“All we do is disguise our weak politics behind a powerful bureaucracy and disguise our powerful bureaucracy behind weak political decision making.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“offering silent tribute to the unwillingness of any bureaucracy to go out of business. By” — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“As bureaucracies accumulate power, they become immune to their own mistakes.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
“The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“I have always believed that a properly guided bureaucracy is deadlier than any bomb.” — Yoon Ha Lee 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
“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
We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty,… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
“By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime will never… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
“In 2010, 70 percent of federal tax revenue was consumed by three entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security)” — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
“We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.” — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society where… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
“Mindless rules, not accountable officials, are the enemy of freedom.” — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I am a fighter and I am in that fight and I have to make sure that I share the responsibility with my players… — Erik ten Hag Copy Share Image
I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
I think accepting an instruction is part of a player's responsibility. — Sam Allardyce Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image