Quotes About Bureaucracy

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. That's some catch, that Catch-22, he observed. It's the best there is, Doc Daneeka agreed.

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity by this clause of Catch-22 and let a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' agreed Doc Daneeka.

His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce.

Bureaucracy, as Hannah Arendt defined it: the rule of nobody. Roll

Ba nu e deloc piciorul tau! replica sora Cramer.Acest picior apartine guvernului SUA.

Sure there's a catch,' Doc Daneeka replied. 'Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.' There

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller

Each morning they came around, three brisk and serious men with efficient mouths and inefficient eyes...

For Catch-22 is the unwritten law which empowers the authorities to revoke your rights whenever it suits their cruel whims;

We've got gravity licked but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Because adherence to standard operating procedures is difficult to second-guess, decision makers who expect to have their decisions scrutinized with hindsight are driven to bureaucratic solutions—and to an extreme reluctance to take risks.

In a strange way, death is actually one of the steps of the code. It isn't listed in the algorithm, of course, but it's there. The first step. Everyone knows it, but no one will say it. Even though the patient has already died from the devastation of disease, the code presses on until someone "calls it." Then, and only then, can death be acknowledged. It is a wrenching combination of human grief and quotidian bureaucracy.

The primary function of the government is to spew out paper

Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon's Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso's people with both eyes on the same side of their face.

The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy." Billy Mitchell

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

I don't get political with anyone just pointing out that the government in general excuse my French has screwed up health care so bad that it does not matter how successful you become in life you still have to wait on a list and can no longer go around the Government whether you are a Veteran, a successful person or a successful Veteran all of us are in the same boat and we all are heading for the socialist Veterans Administration plan for the whole world to be in

The Don Quixote of the twenty-first century will not be a knight-errant struggling to revive the glories of feudalism but a bureaucrat in a brown suit, a tax collector yearning for a citizen to audit.