An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.
Bureaucracy Quotes
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even spoils systems are preferable because the tolerance level is lower and the corrupt can be thrown out occasionally. Entrenched bureaucracy can seldom be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military […]
Bureaucrat, n.: A politician who has tenure.
A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.
In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing.
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world.
I can’t stand this proliferation of paperwork. It’s useless to fight the forms. You’ve got to kill the people producing them.
If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn’t worth doing.
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
