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A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn’t fit.
Evan EsarA civil servant doesn't make jokes.
Eugene IonescoA civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
George S. PattonAfter a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
Winston ChurchillAn official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.
Arthur HelpsBureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
James CookBureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
Jaime LernerBureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.
Evan EsarBureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.
Javier PascualBureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
Albert EinsteinEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz KafkaIn any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
Chris FussellPaperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.
Pobert MeltzerPowers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.
Charley ReeseThe bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Oscar WildeThe bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state.
Karl MarxThe only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthyThe perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks AtkinsonYou can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.
Ric Keller