Quotes About Bureaucracy

The peace and seclusion of country life have already been largely undermined by the radio, the car, and the telephone, and by the spread of bureaucracy into almost every department of life; and now if millions of people who can no longer endure the pace and the demands of city life are moving into the country, and if entire industries are dispersed into rural areas, then the urbanization of the country will go ahead fast, and the whole basic structure of life there will be changed.

hep ayn? suratlar, ayn? söylem, ayn? görev, ayn? ka??tlar.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDS, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of these wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead—everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. —Bruce Jackson Keynote address "Media and War" symposium, University of Buffalo November 17–18, 2003

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

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.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

Enterprising government employees become consultants.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Tragedija svih velikih religija je da one krše i izopa?uju same principe slobode ?im postanu masovne organizacije, kojima vlada religiozna birokratija.

ÇoÄŸu insan Kafka'n?n ihtiyar?na benzer. Umut ederler ama yüreklerinin sesini, itkisini dinleme ve ona göre davranma yetisinden yoksundurlar; bürokratlar onlara yeÅŸil ???k yakmad??? sürece beklerler de beklerler.

A large rubber company was told it must provide proof that it had no Jewish employees before it could submit bids to municipalities.

disrupting the lives of hidebound bureaucrats. He launched his new

French, the language of diplomacy. Spanish, the language of bureaucracy.

Headaches from using my attunement? I could deal with them. Existential terror at the possibility of destroying my own mind? Pretty much routine at this point. Doing paperwork for the government? Now that was brutal.

Headaches from using my attunement? I could deal with them. Existential terror at the possibility of destroying my own mind? Pretty much routine at this point. Doing paperwork for the government?

zestawia? katastrof? samolotu z dwudziestoma tysi?cami ludzi zabitych strza?em w ty? g?owy i zakopanych w bezimiennych do?ach?! To jest kolosalny przekr?t moralny. Tam nie by?o ?adnego bohaterstwa, nie by?o ?adnej ofiary. Po prostu zgin?li urz?dnicy.

We impugn the private sector, we impugn main street America, and the bureaucracy cannot be held to any different standard whatsoever.

If you are being held back by some unnecessary government rule or process, we will provide an easy way for you to let us know. And whenever we can take action, we will do so quickly.

Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.

NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.