Quotes about Bureaucracy

The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.

Karol Wojtyla, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

Too often we think of religion as a far-off, mysteriously run bureaucracy to which we apply for assistance when we feel the need. We go to a local branch office and direct the clerk (sometimes called a pastor) to fill out our order for God. Then we go home and wait for God to be delivered to us according to the specifications that we have set down. But that is not the way it works. And if we thought about it for two consecutive minutes, we would not want it to work that way.