Bureaucracy's Quotes

Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace. — Widad Akreyi

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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

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism. — Sonny Bono

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

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. — Jack Welch

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

You know, when you see something from the inside, you see all the corruption. — Jeffrey Goldberg

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

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

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

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. — Indira Gandhi

One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive. — Gerald R. Ford

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

It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey. — John Le Carre

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

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process. — Jeff Bezos

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness. — Nong Duc Manh

The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition. — Tim Weiner

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer. — William S. Burroughs

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. — Leon Trotsky

Because Reagan once said, you can't be for big government, big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. Boy, — Ted Cruz

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy. — Robin Boyd

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. — Bill Maher

Good ideas don't stand a chance against good bureaucracy. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody. — Hannah Arendt

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates. — Thomas Jefferson

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. — Dale Dauten

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline. — James C. Collins

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

We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again. — Larry Sanger

Do you really understand all this army stuff?

It helps not to be too bright, sir. — M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

To the CIA, everyone's an outsider. — Tim Weiner

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

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly. — Wangari Maathai

There is no crueler hells then committee work ... — Robert Jackson Bennett

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity. — Walter Bagehot

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

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 privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense ... — Michael Swanwick

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy. — Carly Fiorina

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 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

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. — Charles W. Pickering

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity. — Andrew Lansley

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

The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy.
Billy Mitchell — James D. Bradley

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. — Barack Obama

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

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

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

Rather than Surrender to Bureaucracy, take it upon yourself to break it — Scott Belsky

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

Up or out greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job. — James Fallows

I was utterly, breathtakingly, and touchingly clueless. That's how folks like me get jobs like mine: honor outweighs common sense. — Stephen L. Burns

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. — Eugene McCarthy

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

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy. — Sean Parker

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything. — Charles E. McKenzie

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

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind. — Edward T. Hall

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

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. — William Blake

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it. — David Halberstam

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

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster. — David Wellington

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse. — Evan Esar

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

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate ... — Simone Weil

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

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