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Quotations about bureaucracy

Bertrand RussellThe State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

 - Bertrand Russell

Tags:   bureaucracy  government  status quo  

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

 - Jim Collins

Tags:   bureaucracy  discipline  incompetence  

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by tools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be Liked.

 - Harold Bloom

Tags:   academics  bureaucracy  education  

George Bernard ShawThe art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

 - George Bernard Shaw

Tags:   aristocracy  bureaucracy  government  idols  

Thomas SowellIt is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medications somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medications and a government bureaucracy to administer "universal health care."

 - Thomas Sowell

Tags:   bureaucracy  expense  healthcare  medicine