Bureaucracies Quotes

“All the present bureaucracies of political governments, great religious organizations, and all big businesses find that physical success for all humanity would be devastating to the perpetuation of their ongoing activities. This is because all of them are founded on the premise of ameliorating individual cases while generally exploiting on behalf of their respective political, religious, or business organizations the condition of no-where-nearly-enough-life-support-for-all and its resultant great human suffering and discontent.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

“Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.”
― Paul Goodman

“One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one that promises the most personal benefits. Here is the Achilles’ heel of armies, police and bureaucracies.”
― Frank Herbert, The White Plague

“Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me the most. I distrust extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who from such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner.”
― frank herbert

“Bureaucracies are a strange beast whose only goal is obesity.”
― Tim Heaton, The Southerners Guide To Surviving New York City: How not to get yourself killed.

“Sometimes he would rather battle a demon from Hell than grapple with the bureaucracy of man.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”
― Brooks Atkinson

“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof they were busy.”
― Charles Peters, How Washington Really Works

“Bloated bureaucracies crush aspirations, suppress ingenuity, and grind responsiveness to a crawl.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others