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Quotes about Bureaucracy

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
- Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Laurence J. Peter, US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

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, US politician (1916 - 2005)

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- Milton Friedman, US economist (1912 - 2006)

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson, (1894 - 1984)