Bureaucrats Quote by Kenzaburō Ōe Download Open image ““We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”” — Kenzaburō Ōe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aberration Statesmen Bureaucrats Character Moral Aberration Morals Power Society Tolerance Tolerant Tolerant Moral
“We are turning into a nation of rigid, mindless, rule-driven bureaucrats, incapable or unwilling to exercise any degree of common sense or compassion.” — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.” — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and… — Stanley Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“The asshole refuses to listen to our legitimate complaints, and so he poses a challenge to the idea that we are each to be… — Aaron James Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, many today have come to equate morality with political correctness,” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“Our society had become antagonistic and biased against the principled and moral members of society.” — Mike Foster Copy Share Image
“They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish by all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Bird, hesitating, recalled a line from the English textbook he was reading with his students; a young American was speaking angrily: Are you kidding… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“In introducing himself, he had said, "I'm the father," and the doctors had winced. Because something else must have echoed in their ears- I'm… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“I thought about death and was gripped by feelings which choked my chest and made my throat dry, a sudden pushing and shoving in… — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“If I'm a monster then I want to be a real monster. I'll become a monster and explode.” — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant… — Ronald Reagan 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
Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else. — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau. — Hugh S. Johnson Copy Share Image
The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
