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  • Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

    Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.206, Routledge
  • I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

    Source: progressive.org
  • I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects us all. Read. Enjoy. And if a comparison to Catch 22 pops into your mind, that’s not surprising.

  • They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

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

    White   House   Different  
    Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.
  • So many signatures for such a small heart.

  • Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

  • 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.

    "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.
  • The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.

    Doors   Judging   People  
    Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”
  • Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

  • Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

  • Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.

    Fall   Party   Struggle  
    Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.71, University of Michigan Press
  • The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

    Philip Berrigan, Fred Wilcox (1996). “Fighting the lamb's war: skirmishes with the American Empire : the autobiography of Philip Berrigan”, Common Courage Pr
  • The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

    Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey
  • Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

    Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin
  • Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

    Law   Burden   Easier  
  • I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

    Police   Fighter   Crime  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become this giant blob bureaucracy, the primary objective is self-preservation, and the definition of self-preservation is don't do anything because then you continue to illustrate where you're needed.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • [University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.

  • The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.

    Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications
  • Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

  • How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

    Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.70, Open Road Media
  • Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.

  • We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

    Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.63, Basic Books
  • I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

  • 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.

    Teacher   Children   Two  
    "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.
  • The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

    Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1843-44”
  • 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.

  • Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

    Mean   Years   Police  
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