Bureaucracy Quotes

Bureaucracy Quote of the day

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

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

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

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