Bureaucracy 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

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

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

— Evan Esar

I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.

— Bill Pullman

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

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

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

“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

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

— Jeff Bezos

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

— Tony Abbott