188 Quotes About Bureaucracy

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it’s that patterns are repeated.

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.