Bureaucracy Quote by Slavoj Žižek

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

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

— Karl Marx

“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

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

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 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

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

— Mary McCarthy

“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

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

— Bill Maher

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures…

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Bernard Crick

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

— Anonymous