A Quote by Jaime Lerner

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything. — © Jaime Lerner
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]
There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.
This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.
I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.
We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity to Italy.
I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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