A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which […]
Bureaucracy Quotes
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they […]
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
The uninspected deteriorates.
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.
