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Bureaucracy |
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Quotations
 | A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 4 likes |
 | Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 3 likes |
 | Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige. — Northcote Parkinson, 1909-1993, British historian 2 likes |
 | Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
 | It is not our bureaucracy that is too big for our state, it is our state that is too small for our bureaucracy. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 1 likes |
 | As a flood spreads wider and wider, the water becomes shallower and dirtier. The Revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. |
 | Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible, but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. |
 | Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. |
 | The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
| The ambitious bureaucrat dreams that one day his pen will be promoted to a spear. |
Funny Quotes
| Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 3 likes |
