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“Processes of rationalization and disenchantment engender a shift from a social order founded upon value-rational beliefs and governed through charismatic and traditional forms of authority, to an o...”
“If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and asse...”
“Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.”
“Humphrey Not another czar, please, Prime Minister. In the last three years weve appointed an Enterprise Czar, a Youth-Crime Czar, a Welfare Supremo, a Pre-School Supremo, an Unemployment Watchdog, ...”
“Younger managers learn quickly that, whatever the public protestations to the contrary, bosses generally want pliable and agreeable subordinates, especially during periods of crisis. Clique leaders...”
“Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon”
“Lets form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then well stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.”
“We decided to go back to basics and put the frighteners on some snouts.""Really?""We adopted a proactive intelligence-gathering policy utilising appropriate stakeholders in the community and pre-es...”
“We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting.”
“We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.”
“Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional ...”
“These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over manof one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of t...”
“The NSA?""Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery."Venkat shrugged. "It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting fo...”
“The self-actualization philosophy from which most of this new bureaucratic language emerged insists that we live in a timeless present, that history means nothing, that we simply create the world a...”
“The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come w...”
“Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly every government antipoverty program operates on the assumption t...”
“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”
“To him, one of the most fascinating historical aspects of governments was their complete disregard for governing. Governments were single-minded and interested only in increasing their control and ...”
“When a religious system or a government organizes into a bureaucracy, it is the bureaucracy that incessantly moves all activities increasingly and inevitably towards it's own destruction. The momen...”
“Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.”
