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Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.
— Widad Akreyi
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— Scott Turow
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
— Madeleine Albright
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
— Bernard Crick
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status
— Laurence J. Peter
It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.
— David Foster Wallace
Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.
— John Sculley
My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
— Harmony Korine
Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.
— Ryan Lilly
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
— Simone Weil
A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
— Colin Greenwood
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
— Albert Einstein
Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.
— Ronald Reagan
Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.
— James Woolsey
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
— John Hickenlooper
It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.
— Helen Phillips
As Max Weber long ago pointed out, once one sets up a genuinely effective bureaucracy, it's almost impossible to get rid of it.
— David Graeber
My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
— C.S. Lewis
To most people in a bureaucracy, the main thing is that they've got a steady paycheck, because who ever lays off a bureaucrat?
— John Ringo
To achieve peace, it is crucial to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents peace processes from advancing.
— Widad Akreyi
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.
— Ilana Mercer
Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of
government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. — George Carlin
government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. — George Carlin
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.
— Sean Parker
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
— Eugene McCarthy
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate ...
— Simone Weil
Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
— Patrick Hennessey
People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me ... If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.
— Oliver North
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 it to work.
— Jennifer Pahlka
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
— William S. Burroughs
Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.
— Robert A. Caro
Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.
— David Wellington
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.
— Charles E. McKenzie
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
— David Halberstam
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
— Theresa May
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.
— Lev Grossman
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
— Frank Herbert
Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy.
— Julian Barnes
The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.
— Philip Berrigan
pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.
— Arthur C. Brooks
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
— Andrew Lansley
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
— Frank Herbert
Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.
— Kollontai Alexandra
I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
— Dean Koontz
We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.
— Nong Duc Manh
It's the first rule of bureaucracy: any message worth sending is worth sending in triplicate.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Bureaucracy is trouble everybody has. It's a system evolved so that nobody in it is ever responsible for anything.
— L. Ron Hubbard
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
— Madam C. J. Walker
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
— Frederick Forsyth
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.
— Walter Bagehot
There is no crueler hells then committee work ...
— Robert Jackson Bennett
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.
— Wangari Maathai
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
— Christopher Bond
To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.
— Tim Weiner
Do you really understand all this army stuff?
It helps not to be too bright, sir. — M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
It helps not to be too bright, sir. — M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.
— Larry Sanger
Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.
— Verghese Kurien
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
— James C. Collins
Because Reagan once said, you can't be for big government, big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. Boy,
— Ted Cruz
The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
— Thomas Jefferson
Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
— Hannah Arendt
Good ideas don't stand a chance against good bureaucracy.
— Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.
— Robin Boyd
The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy.
Billy Mitchell — James D. Bradley
Billy Mitchell — James D. Bradley
Up or out greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
— James Fallows
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
— Akio Morita
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.
— Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.
— Terry Winograd
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
— Hyman G. Rickover
I was utterly, breathtakingly, and touchingly clueless. That's how folks like me get jobs like mine: honor outweighs common sense.
— Stephen L. Burns
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
— Joe Haldeman
It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.
— John Le Carre
In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
— Andrew Lansley
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
— Charles W. Pickering
I don't want a lot of bureaucracy ... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.
— Charlie Crist
In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
— Narendra Modi
I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
— Carly Fiorina
The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense ...
— Michael Swanwick