Bureaucracy Quotes

Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succee...

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devi...

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureau...

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were stil...

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care...

Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanct...

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great advers...

Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform inste...

If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human ...

Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns...

Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency ...

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted ...

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sord...

In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent ...

The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and c...

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good th...

Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life out...

As a result, amongst working-class Americans, government is now generally seen as being made up of t...

Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of org...

The “self-actualization” philosophy from which most of this new bureaucratic language emerged insist...

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

But the plans were on display…”“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”...

They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they beli...

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especia...

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In...

These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the...

for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea...

private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Governme...

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in contro...

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulti...