Bureaucracy Quotes - Page 11

• Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.

  Frank Prochaska

  Erosion, People, Democracy

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• No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Independent, Men

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• Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

  Karl Marx

  Strong, Army, Government

  David McLellan, Karl Marx (1972). “The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction”

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• Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

  Frank Herbert

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don't need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don' t need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.

  James C. Collins

  Discipline, People, Needs

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• Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

  Alvin Toffler

  Kings, Cutting, Knights

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• Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Selfish, Opportunity

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• Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told.

  David Cay Johnston

  Surprise, Complicated, Taxes

  "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.

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• Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings.

  Eva Cox

  Trust, Order, Law

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• We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

  Josh Mandel

  Agency, Government, People

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• The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

  Deepak Chopra

  Influence, Corruption, Vicious

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest this. I was very young, just a girl. We went to the Viminale [home of the Ministry of the Interior] and spoke to the chair of the ministry board. Thanks to our initiative, we got the bureaucracy rolling on giving women the right to vote. I have to thank my father for this. He was in Geneva at the League of Nations, and women voted there. He thought it was absurd that women didn't vote in his country yet.

  Giovanna Cau

  Girl, Country, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.

  Ted Gup

  Administration, Degrees, Natural

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Cancer, Government

  "Of Pharaohs and Firearms". Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Website, jpfo.org. 2012.

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• The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

  Terry Winograd

  Mind, Technique, Social

  "Thinking Machines: Can there be? Are we?". Book by Terry Winograd, 1990.

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• In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

  Ilana Mercer

  Forever, Training, Incentives

  "Why Government 'Care' Will Never, Ever Work". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. October 26, 2013.

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• By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, Voting, Unorthodox

  "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.

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• The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.

  Salvador Allende

  Government, Self, Unity

  Editorial by the North American Congress on Latin America, July 2003.

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• Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy, theocracy, revolutionary governments, patriarchy, matriarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, protection rackets, intimidation by gangsters, and every other kind of coercive institution. In other words, anarchism opposes government in all its forms.

  Donald Rooum

  Army, Government, Wages

  "What Is Anarchism? An Introduction". Book by Donald Rooum, August 1, 1992.

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• French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Language, Diplomacy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2756, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.

  John Stossel

  Jobs, Government, Giving

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• Rather than Surrender to Bureaucracy, take it upon yourself to break it

  Scott Belsky

  Surrender, Break

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• In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

  Karl Marx

  Identity, Way, States

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Independent, Leader

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• Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

  Ouida

  Sweet, Clerks, Littles

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.95, Ouida

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