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Quotations by Subject: Bureaucracy
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.: Charles Peters
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.: Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.: Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.: Unknown


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