Quotes about Bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating fr — Max Weber
Business is boss, politics is servant. — Amit Kalantri
Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue — Ryan Lilly
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each — Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed
I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" t — C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted — G.M. Young, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age
The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up. — Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart
We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues. — John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians. — Amit Kalantri
Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their child — David Brooks
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling. — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
To him, one of the most fascinating historical aspects of governments was their complete disregard for governing. Govern — Hank Quense, Zaftan Entrepreneurs
The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepren — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
When a religious system or a government organizes into a bureaucracy, it is the bureaucracy that incessantly moves all a — R.A.Delmonico
Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get — Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to li — Eugene J. McCarthy
An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The govern — Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which — Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the nationa — Jim Geraghty, The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits
Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while cu — Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life