Top Bureaucracy Quotes

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more tim...

Bureaucracy Definition

(n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

(n.) Government officials, collectively.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our de...

Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was that of the heroic Greek period; so said Hegel, and he demonstrated it with The Iliad:...

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experi...

A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to do w...

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour ca...

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Business is boss, politics is servant.

Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently in...

Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns malignant like the Narcotic Bureau, and grows and grows, always reproducing more of its own kind, u...

But the plans were on display…On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.That’s the display department.With a flashlight.Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.So had the stair...

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

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could pre...

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

What passed for useful information sharing within an organization was really just bureaucratic phatic of people protecting their position, looking for praise, projecting criticism, setting up position...