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Tag Name "Bureaucracy" (175)

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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
Albert Einstein
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bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
Barbara Tuchman
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Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
Frank Herbert
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Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.
Ronald Reagan
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Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.
Aaron Broussard
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Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.
Herbert Hoover
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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
Jaime Lerner
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Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.
Evan Esar
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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
Hannah Arendt
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten
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Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
Aaron Broussard
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
Leon Trotsky
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Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac
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Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
James Cook
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Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.
Erich Fromm
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I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.
Wangari Maathai
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Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.
Ralph Raico
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
Ernest Hemingway
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
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Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.
Widad Akrawi
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Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.
Reginald Fessenden
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Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings.
Eva Cox
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