Top 445 Bureaucracy Quotes & Sayings

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.

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.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.

In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

We will not let bureaucracy stand in the way of governing.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which was really savage - is that the Greek crisis didn't have to erupt. It could have been taken care of pretty easily at the very beginning. But it happened and Syriza came into office with a declared commitment to combat it, and in fact as I recall they actually called a referendum, which horrified Europe.

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.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

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.

When we're worried about a bureaucracy and keeping the bureaucracy going, you're always going to make mistakes.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.

I trust the individual over the bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

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]

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

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 can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.