Appearance Quote by 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

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

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

— Walter Bagehot

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

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

“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

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

— Jeff Bezos

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

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like…

— Jennifer Pahlka

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

— Anonymous

“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

the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left…

— Hannah Arendt