Bureaucracy Quotes

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

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If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have had the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The only trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. He has been essentially defeated by his job.

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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Bureaucracy, a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency.  An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

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

A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.

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

There is something about a bureaucrat that doesn't like a poem.

In your prayers substitute "Protect us from evil" with "Protect us from those who improve things for a salary."

Bureaucracy is a construction designed to maximize the distance between a decision-maker and the risks of the decision.