Quotes about Bureaucracy

It's like a government agency that really works.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it.

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

Typical Chilean characteristics, such as sobriety, a horror of ostentation, of standing out over others or attracting attention, generosity, a tendency to compromise rather than confront, a legalistic mentality, respect for authority, resignation to bureaucracy, enthusiasm for political argument

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

Karol Wojtyla, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.

Karol Wojtyla, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.