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A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn’t fit.Evan Esar
A civil servant doesn't make jokes.Eugene Ionesco
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.George S. Patton
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.Winston Churchill
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.Arthur Helps
Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.James Cook
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.Jaime Lerner
Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.Evan Esar
Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.Javier Pascual
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.Albert Einstein
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.Franz Kafka
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.Chris Fussell
Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.Pobert Meltzer
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.Charley Reese
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.Oscar Wilde
The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state.Karl Marx
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.Eugene McCarthy
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.Brooks Atkinson
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.Ric Keller
