Becoming Quote by Ted Waitt

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

— Karl Marx

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure…

— Judith M Bardwick

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there…

— Leon Trotsky

“Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.”

— David Sedaris

“Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands…

— Frank Herbert

“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little…

— Max Weber

We need to call what is happening out of Washington, D.C., what it is: Bureaucratic terrorism: If you want a list of stories, I…

— Matt Shea

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic…

— Eugene Jarecki

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

— Newt Gingrich

My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning…

— Anonymous

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

— Chuck Yeager

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for…

— Barton Gellman