Bureaucracy

(220 votes)   So many signatures for such a small heart.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(187 votes)   I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?''

William Allingham
1824-1889, Poet

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(126 votes)   Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(101 votes)   The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill
1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist

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(90 votes)   A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

Walter Bagehot
1826-1877, British Economist, Critic

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(90 votes)   It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-, American Author, Columnist

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(77 votes)   Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

P. J. O'Rourke
1947-, American Journalist

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(75 votes)   Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

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(73 votes)   Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Joseph A. Schumpeter
1883-1950, Austrian-American Economist

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(71 votes)   A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office a Republican wants.

Alben W. Barkley
1877-1956, American Politician

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(70 votes)   A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, ''Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.''

Marquis De Custine
1790-1857, French Traveler, Author

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(68 votes)   Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneur's time.

James L. Hayes
American Businessman, President, American Management Association

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(67 votes)   A bureaucrat is a person who cuts red tape sideways.

J. Mccabe

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(66 votes)   The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of the inner circles of Dante's Inferno.

Nicholas Goodison
British Business Executive, Chairman of London Stock Exchange

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(66 votes)   Those who can, do, those who can't teach; and those who can do neither, administer.

Calvin Calverley

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