188 Quotes About Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Except in Punjab and the NWFP, the central government’s Kashmir policy had little support in Sindh or Balochistan and even less in East Bengal. Instead of serving the people, civil servants and their allies in the army hoisted the political leaders with their Kashmir petard to become the veritable masters of the manor through autocratic and unconstitutional means.

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof they were busy.

I did not know that bureaucracy could send its claws into our very coffins

Once, several years ago, [GM] tried to stamp out bureaucracy--and ended up appointing a committee to oversee how many committee meetings should be held. (Quoting Sharon Terlep, The Wall Street Journal, "GM's Plodding Culture Vexes Its Impatient CEO," April 7, 2010)

Success in bureaucratic politics comes when those in charge claim a once-unpopular idea as their own

The bureaucracy is what we all suffer from.

Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

Bureaucracy progresses at its own pace. That is to say, slowly.