Bureaucracy Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time
  making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, People, Soul

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.162, Stanford University Press

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• That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Running, Believe, America

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• Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.

  Andy Sawford

  Children, Focus, Helping

  "How Whitehall betrayed social workers" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Receiving, Needs

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• Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

  Timothy Leary

  Moon, Village Life, Space

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.

  Lee Child

  Commitment, Responsibility, Thinking

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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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• Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

  George Gilder

  Racism, People, Erode

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.177, Regnery Publishing

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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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• 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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