188 Quotes About Bureaucracy

How can you make sense of a place if it won't hold still to be counted and even its colors aren't fast? Their job was to imagine, never to know. The truth, as generations of directors had reminded their charges, would only get in the way.

Zamanism is about creating power and private resources for all in society by destroying bureaucratic and monopolistic control on society.

Maybe it's time to take a lot closer look at the bureaucratic decisions being made by some of our governmental agencies and to start reducing their powers back to where the citizens control instead of being controlled.

You'd be surprised how good writing matters when you're going after money.

Authority is a responsible form of power; it should be given to responsible man.

We shall not extend ourselves with magic when bureaucracy serves as fine an end.

Act on people's request before request turn into intimidation.

Serikali inayodhulumu wananchi wake ni hatari kuliko simba.

There was a point of equilibrium in any organization’s middle management, a fulcrum of responsibility that remained still while the upper and lower ranks of the bureaucracy moved around it. Tyren knew from experience that a shrewd official could find this pivot-point within the org chart and, once entrenched, enjoy near-complete autonomy with almost no responsibility.