Quotes About Bureaucracy

They don't even have a modern government. It's the worst government in any state. The laziest. It does nothing—outside of keeping law courts and a police department. It doesn't do anything for the people. It doesn't help anybody.

Because even if she were able to leave the Station—alive—still, it's only humans that can land on Earth, and humans are defined by their papers.

This bureaucracy had been created after 9/11 because of political

Eleven stories above Brooklyn Heights in a 659,000-square-foot building that also housed Morgan Stanley and the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Hillary's top aides were as miserable as midlevel bureaucrats in an agency with no clear plans for how to attain its mission. They

Heights—an orange-vested Caltrans crew, stupidest agency in the state, taking petty-fascist satisfaction in blocking off two lanes. I sat, idling along with the Seville, rolled a foot or two, sat some more, finally got past La Cienega. Unmindful of the noise and the dirt. New focus: yearning to feel useful.

Civil servants have an extraordinary genius for wrapping up a simple idea to make it sound extremely complicated.

Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service. I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby on his deathbed, surround by wills and insurance claim forms, looking up and saying, 'I cannot go yet, God, I haven't done the paperwork.

Sin democracia –argumenta, por una vez argumenta, Vasconcelos– el resultado es la dictadura militar o burocrática: el caudillismo latinoamericano o el predominio de una casta burocrática, como en Rusia.

By this point in the war Lee had become a master at outlining a course of action that was specific enough to obtain the necessary bureaucratic backing but vague enough to allow him maximum flexibility of action once underway.

Os guardiões atrasam o trabalho de outras áreas funcionais por meio de avaliações, burocracia e regras rígidas. Áreas funcionais facilitadoras ajudam as equipes a acelerar seu trabalho.

As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born. A bureaucracy breaks the complexity down into a series of interlocking systems. You don't need to know how the systems fit together, or even what function your bit of the system has, you just perform your bit and the whole machine creaks on.

Ever since mankind stopped wandering around aimlessly and started cultivating its own food, society has been growing more complex. As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.

A civilizáció és bürokrácia egy másik kulcsfontosságú jellemz?je a tehetetlenség.

As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.

Red tape has killed more people than bullets...

In this, they echoed the views of a generation brought up to think of Britain as Great, but now doomed in peacetime to watch the American ascendancy, decolonisation, queues, bureaucracy, socialism and other perceived indignities as the Empire declined.

The deep-seated need for collective purpose and capacity found its outlet in the United States in bureaucracy, the movement away from a government answerable to the population and toward a government run by so-called experts.

The sales tax, excise and property registration departments are all more eager to collect cash in their drawers than to collect for the government's coffers.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.