#bureau

The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#nature

One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one that promises the most personal benefits. Here is the Achilles’ heel of armies, police and bureaucracies. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#bureaucracies #bureaucracy #elite #hierarchy #power

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#bureaucrats #criticized #disagreements #ever #found

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#donate #face #frazier #his #life

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#ago #beach #beginning #bureaucrat #forty

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#back #been #blues #born #bureau

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#bureaucracies #changes #entrenched #fundamental #opposed

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#because #bureau #came #certain #communicating

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. ↗

— Bill Maher

#bureaucracy #god #i #man #me

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#bureaucracy #corruption #especially #fight #must