Bureaucracy Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Media, Organization, World

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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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• 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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• Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Communication, Media

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• Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of
  government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

  George Carlin

  Government, Healthy, Mountain

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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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• Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.

  Herbert Hoover

  Blessing, Political, Progress

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

  Robert Townsend

  Ideas, Poor, Sponsors

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it. Only the state can make sure that no child is left behind. The only question is the means: will we use the union and bureaucracies favored by the left, or the market incentives and vouchers favored by the right. I don't want to get into a debate about which means is better, but only to draw attention to the reality that these are both forms of planning that compromise the freedom of families to manage their own affairs.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Children, Mean, Reality

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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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• In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, People, Cabinets

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.52, VM eBooks

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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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• Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.

  Isabel Allende

  Catholic, Understanding, Majority

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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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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• 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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• We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

  Sonny Bono

  Irs, Totalitarianism

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• One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the long term, and not to let himself get sucked into the battles of the bureaucracy for marginal issues, and to keep them focused and to keep his mind clear on what the fundamental things are that he has to accomplish.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Long, Mind, Battle

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.

  Carly Fiorina

  Teacher, Children, Two

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

  Robert Baer

  Cia, Incompetent

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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• The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, Parent, Movement

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for President [Lindon] Johnson in Saigon. This book is about the inevitably of screwing up when a country takes on a war with so little understanding of the country they are fighting.

  George Packer

  Country, War, Book

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Fighting, Entrepreneur, Needs

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.

  Daniel Byman

  People, Political, Police

  "When To Call Attacks 'Terrorism'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.

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• You see the kind of approach, because he [Doanld Trump] is a businessman. He's like, I'm going to pick up the phone, I'm gonna call that CEO and we're going to talk about this directly, instead of getting mired in a lot of the way down, you know, bureaucracy and red tape and having 25 assistants or deputies talk to somebody instead of going directly to the root of the problem.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Phones, Roots, Tape

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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