“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” – Thomas Sowell
“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.” – Honore de Balzac
“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.” – Eugene J. McCarthy
“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.” – Albert Einstein
“Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.” – Javier Pascual Salcedo
“Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.” – Franz Kafka
“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.” – Richard M. Nixon
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.” – Mary McCarthy
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.” – Laurence Peter
“Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.” – Dale Dauten
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