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Bureaucracy Quotes
Bureaucracy Quotes
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
- Franz Kafka
… we can save individuals. You can help Sam or Sally, you can’t help the class. The minute somebody says to you, ‘Let’s help the homeless,’ you know they don’t get it. The minute they say, ‘Let’s have a bureaucracy do it,’ you know they don’t get it. … in a bureaucracy, a case worker will have up to 200 welfare clients. In the 19th century, because they recruited volunteers, the ratio was either 1 to 1 or 1 to 2. And at 1 to 1 or 1 to 2, you can actually help transform the person that you are helping. At 1 to 200, you can give them a check so they can go and get drunk.
- Newt Gingrich
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
- Honore de Balzac
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
- Brooks Atkinson
