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Bureaucracy Quotes

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.109, Fulcrum Publishing

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

Albert Einstein (2006). “The World As I See It”, p.89, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.231, Penguin

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

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

The Human Condition ch. 6 (1958)

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

"Quiet revolution". Interview with Tom Phillips, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2008.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

Mikhail Bulgakov (2010). “The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.273, Random House

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.313, Granta Books

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.251, Penguin

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

"Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.392, Oxford University Press, USA

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

Indira Gandhi (1975). “India: The Speeches and Reminiscences of Indira Gandhi”

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

1968 Sex, Death and Money, preface. See Frost 338:84.