There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

—Georges Clemenceau

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About Georges Clemenceau

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Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end...

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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

—Georges Clemenceau

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

—Georges Clemenceau

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.

—Georges Clemenceau

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

—Georges Clemenceau

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Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines,… but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

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Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

—Charles Peters

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

—Brooks Atkinson

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

—Laurence J. Peter

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If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

—Charles Kettering

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