Bureaucracy Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bureaucracy Fourth Government Politics Stupid Three
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am leading this government but this is a three-party government and even the independents are with us. More importantly, the public is with… — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance. — Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Copy Share Image
Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. — Chuck Schumer 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
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein 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… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
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… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and… — Rush Limbaugh 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
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