Bureaucracy Quotes

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.

You see, what really distinguishes American capitalism from most other countries’ is not that we don’t have C.E.O. crooks, but others do, or that we never have bogus accounting, bribery, corruption or other greedy excesses, but others do. No, we have all the same excesses that other capitalist nations have, because fear and greed are […]

The engineer breaks a large problem into many small problems, each of which he can solve. The bureaucrat takes many small problems and rolls them together to form a large problem that no one can solve.