Quotes with bureaucracy

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  • Eugene McCarthy The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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  • John Stuart Mill
    The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Arthur Capper Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Mary McCarthy Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Franz Kafka Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Bill Flores If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mortar of bureaucracy of the VA? Why can't you give them an insurance card and let them go to a health care provider of their choice?
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Hyman G. Rickover If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t.
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  • Benigno Aquino III Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bernard Crick The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 143
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Bruce Jackson The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley 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
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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