Quotes on Bureaucracy


The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951



The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy (1916 - ), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979



Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)



Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman (1912 - )



Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
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