Bureaucratic Quotes

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.' — Barry Eisler

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors. — Ludwig Von Mises

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. — Robert Conquest

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production. — Max Weber

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets. — David T. Kearns

Anti-digital mindsets are those "status quo" types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making. — Pearl Zhu

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten. — John Naisbitt

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth. — Ian Bremmer

Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity. — Russell Brand

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

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E.F. Schumacher

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. — Rick Perry

You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people's BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up. — Charles Stross

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. — Chuck Yeager

The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential. — George Soros

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work. — Jim Ratcliffe

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. — Rick Renzi

After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs) — Charles Stross

There was nothing less imaginative or more risk averse than the bureaucratic mind. — Jack Du Brul

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy. — A.E. Samaan

The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic. — Marjorie Scardino

this miserable creature, this once evil bureaucratic butcher — D. Lawrence-Young

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit. — Ludwig Von Mises

He had a weary air of responsibility about him, both bureaucratic and mythological, like someone doomed to guard a cave for all eternity. I — Emma Cline

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. — Milton Friedman

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism. — Newt Gingrich

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic. — Shuji Nakamura

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects. — Jennifer Pahlka

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic. — Micah Lexier

The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy. — Dominic Monaghan

Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel. — James S.A. Corey

hated the British business culture which I saw as slow, bureaucratic, cumbersome, lacking customer service, lacking initiatives. — Elisabeth Marx

Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000. — Foster Friess