Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even spoils systems are preferable because the tolerance level is lower and the corrupt can be thrown out occasionally. Entrenched bureaucracy can seldom be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military […]
Bureaucracy Quotes
Bureaucrat, n.: A politician who has tenure.
A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.
In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing.
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world.
I can’t stand this proliferation of paperwork. It’s useless to fight the forms. You’ve got to kill the people producing them.
If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn’t worth doing.
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
