Quotes About Bureaucracy

for a democracy to flourish, it must have an incorruptible bureaucracy.

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucracy, will fall when its hierarchy reaches an intolerable state of maturity.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status

All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are necessarily cumbered with incompetents who cannot do their existing work, cannot be promoted, yet cannot be removed.

It is important to see that the main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego.

Timely Rain In the jungles of flaming ego, May there be cool iceberg of bodhicitta. On the racetrack of bureaucracy, May there be the walk of the elephant. May the sumptuous castle of arrogance Be destroyed by vajra confidence. In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

You need a building permit. But no permit needed for happiness. (Il faut un permis de construire. Mais pas besoin pour le bonheur)

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it.

Jarndyce mot Jarndyce maler videre. Dette fugleskremselet av en rettssak er med tiden blitt så innfløkt at det ikke er en levende sjel som vet hva den går ut på.

If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office,

Walker Banks," Jade said. "Marlow. Jesus fuck, what took you?" "I just got the job seven hours ago." "What took them?" "The FBI, Warden. Moving at the speed of bureaucracy." "No shit. I got a stack of papers on my desk could sink the Titanic." "The Titanic is sunk." "My point, Marlow. My point.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Por ley la gestión de las cocinas (de los reclusorios) debía decidirse por concurso público. En teoría diversas empresas presupuestaban y las autoridades elegían la alternativa más eficiente. Esta versión de cuentos de hadas no se la creían ni las hadas

This incessant creation of restrictive laws and regulations,surrounding the pettiest actions of existence with the most complicated formalities, inevitably has for its result the confining within narrower and narrower limits of the sphere in which the citizen may move freely.

Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.

A minor bureaucrat's demand for payment to process a form is condemned as corruption. A national leader's sweetheart privatization of public assets to friends and relatives is applauded as market liberalization.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.

The customs officials never ask for gifts but they expect them. There is a fairly precise scale of how much to give at different levels. If you are too generous with someone lower down the ranks of bureaucrats it will often become known, and those higher up will be unhappy. Not only will they expect more themselves, they will be legitimately disturbed that someone is interfering with norms and protocols. It is not for reckless Jaddites to disturb an orderly system.

Consider the big fists breaking your little bones, or consider the vague bureaucrats stumbling, fumbling through Paper.

too much info, keeping up), breakdowns and frustrations in the school systems, taxpaying, bureaucracy, hospitals, and making ends meet. You see, Michael, at last therapy is going to have to go out the door with the client, maybe even make home visits, or at least walk down the street. Jim

Deviants and monsters ran the camps where families were sent up the chimney or turned into bars of soap, but they would have been powerless without the clerks who sat anonymously behind typewriters and gave them bureaucratic legitimacy.

There may be room in government service for the altruist and the iconoclast, but I have yet to see one who was not treated as an oddity at best and at worst an object of suspicion and fear.