If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: ideas committees bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: change bureaucracy status quo inertia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. —Brooks Atkinson More about this quote Tags: escape responsibility decisions bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. —Georges Clemenceau More about this quote Tags: work passion bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: democracy bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email