Bureaucracy Quotes

A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.

Marquis De Custine

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work

Albert Einstein

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

H. Ross Perot

Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneur's time.

James L. Hayes

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mary McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Eugene McCarthy

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office a Republican wants.

Alben W. Barkley

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

Aneurin Bevan

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways.

J. Mccabe

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Gore Vidal

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

If the copying machines that came along later had been here during the war, I'm not sure the allies would have won. We'd all have drowned in paper.

Alan Dickey

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Sitting Bull

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Joseph Schumpeter

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Aldous Huxley

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

P. J. O'Rourke

In the US we find the label requirements are crazy. It is almost as if we had to label a bookcase with the warning 'do not eat this bookcase -- it can be harmful to your health'.

Bjorn Bayley