Bureaucracy Quotes - Page 6

• The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Difficulty, Candidates

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• One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

  Marshall McLuhan

  Responsibility, Mold, Welfare

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “The interior landscape: the literary criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962”

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• Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

  Mark Kennedy

  Dollars, Classroom, Should

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• The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Moving, Men

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

  Edward T. Hall

  Memories, Mind, No Memory

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• The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Men, Political, Way

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

  Max Weber

  Government, Defining, Action

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• My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.

  Hermann Goring

  Justice, Worry, Goering

  Speech in Frankfurt on March 03, 1933. "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny" by Edward Crankshaw, p. 48, 1956.

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• The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.

  Murray Rothbard

  Mean, Desire, Needs

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.422, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Army, Surprise, Speed

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick". www.economist.com. December 19, 2006.

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• The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I never thought of the depth of losing your freedom and what that meant. And I was surprised and delighted by ways people maintain their humanity and try to survive.

  Jenji Kohan

  People, Humanity, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.

  Mark Steyn

  Real, Government, Occupy Movement

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• I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Men, Thinking, Omnipotence

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• Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

  Joel Miller

  Moving, People, Needs

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• Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.

  Walter Lippmann

  Exercise, Government, Minorities

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• Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

  John Sculley

  Innovation, Hierarchy, Individual

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• When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

  John Lennon

  Humble, Albums, Records

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

  Carly Fiorina

  White, House, Different

  Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

  Bernard Crick

  Skills, Ideas, Consistency

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

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• The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Military, Science, People

  "The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Science". Book by Theodore von Karman, p. 268, 1967.

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• Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Land, Salary, Pay

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• Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

  Fred Upton

  Mirrors, Yesterday, Allies

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• In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Bulls, Bucks, Seven

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• I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Government, People

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

  Gary Larson

  Teacher, Strong, School

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