69 quotes found
“What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me! And that one, imagine, smiles and says: Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done! Andbang!”
“Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.”
“Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those...”
“Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing stupidity--of managing relationships that are already characterized by extremely unequal ...”
“Many at the State Department think its their job, not the Army's, to develop cultural and regional expertise and relationships. In such quarters, the RAF concept looks less like an innovative appro...”
“A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.”
“The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.”
“It is as if we were to start hacking a path through the Amazon forest. By the time we have proceeded a hundred yards, the undergrowth takes over again.”
“We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.”
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imagi...”
“The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva burea...”
“To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received...”
“The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".”
“The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.”
“private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Government loans will waste far more capital and resources than private loans. Government loans, in short...”
“Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and w...”
“Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.”
“The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...”
“Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, h...”
“As a result, amongst working-class Americans, government is now generally seen as being made up of two sorts of people: "politicians," who are blustering crooks and liars but can at least occasiona...”
