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Tag Name "Bureaucracy" (251)

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Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
Alan Keyes
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Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.
John Stossel
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Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
Laurence Gonzales
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Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.
Malcolm Forbes
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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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Up or out greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
James Fallows
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It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.
Edna O'Brien
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The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state
Karl Marx
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After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.
Joe Dunthorne
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Thomas Sowell
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Paloma Faith
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The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.
Henry H. Arnold
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Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's Red bureaucracy as a secular priesthood.
Noam Chomsky
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[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles.
Rush Limbaugh
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In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.
Charles E. McKenzie
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.
Richard Holbrooke
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
Jack Kerouac
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Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
Robert A. Heinlein
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There's nothing wrong with the Democratic Party that talks more about - and more loudly about - jobs, and cutting red tape, and bureaucracy, making it easier for entrepreneurs to start jobs, making it easier for businesses to grow and create more jobs. That has historically been the wheelhouse of the Democratic Party.
John Hickenlooper
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The Green Party provides the infrastructure, kind of the culture of watchdogging the electoral bureaucracy, and how you participate, how you get on the ballot, stuff like that which is very difficult to do unless you have billions of dollars.
Jill Stein
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Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.
Adrian Levy
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Our world today is in the grip of anti-capitalism. State bureaucracies ruling over anti-market policies have grown into ideological and political elites who arrogantly presume to know and dictate how we should all live and work.
Richard Ebeling
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