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“Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.”

Done Jobs Individual Initiative New Things Bureaucracy

Author:Lester Thurow

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”

Wells War Country Literature Politics Democracy Modern Democratic Prepared Cease Tyrants Bureaucracy Obedient Government Bureaucracy Modern War

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.”

Country Sea Office Dignity Importance Increase Officials Bureaucracy Ratios Inverse

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Let every nation, right now, do what is best for all citizens of the world: eliminate every form of intervention that would prevent or otherwise hobble mutually beneficial trade between any two parties anywhere in the world. No bureaucracy can help us toward that goal; it must come from a growing realization of the merit of freedom itself.”

World Two Helping Form Nations Goal Party Growing Citizens Right Now Trade Realization Merit Bureaucracy Intervention Beneficial

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.”

Needs Humans Government Nations Workers Department Employee Crucial Slips Receiving Smooth Workplace Bureaucracy Government Bureaucracy Laid Off Human Service

Author:Ann Coulter

“Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.”

Progress Bureaucracy

Author:James Cook

“What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector, staffing the welfare regulatory state, and apologizing for its policies, as well as propagandizing for them among the public. To put it bluntly, intellectuals, theorists, pundits, media elites, etc. get to live a life which they could not attain on the free market, but which they can gain at taxpayer expense.”

“Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.”

People States Whole Form Force Poor Theory Racism Claims Discrimination Ideology Welfare Sexism Dominant Bureaucracy Poor People Sustaining Erode

Book:Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

“If the bureaucracy is not checked, it will tend to build, in the name of peace, a defense against every conceivable contingency - so much 'security' that 'the secured' are without resources - helpless and hopeless.”

Ifs Names Security Resources Defense Hopeless Helpless Bureaucracy Secured Contingency

Author:Leonard Read

“Our world today is in the grip of anti-capitalism. State bureaucracies ruling over anti-market policies have grown into ideological and political elites who arrogantly presume to know and dictate how we should all live and work.”

Knows World Should States Today Political Policy Capitalism Our World Elites Bureaucracy Ruling World Today Ideological

Author:Richard Ebeling

“The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.”

Want Needs Mean Desire Economy Politician Activity Resources Consumers Productive Satisfying Bureaucracy Compulsion Private Sector Wants And Needs Public Sector

Book:Economic Controversies

Source: Economic Controversies

“The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I never thought of the depth of losing your freedom and what that meant. And I was surprised and delighted by ways people maintain their humanity and try to survive.”

People Way Trying Humanity Losing Depth Oppression Bureaucracy Arbitrary Delighted Helplessness Your Freedom

Author:Jenji Kohan

“The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.”

Real Government Movement Return Solutions Investment University Spending Holes Regulation Bureaucracy Pseudo Return On Investment Occupy Movement Lethargic

Author:Mark Steyn

“Sears had layers and layers of people it didn't need. It was very bureaucratic. It was slow to think. And there was an established way of thinking. If you poked your head up with a new thought, the system kind of turned against you. It was everything in the way of a dysfunctional big bureaucracy that you would expect.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Needs Kind Bigs Layers Bureaucracy Way Of Thinking New Thought Heads Up Sears

Author:Charlie Munger

“I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.”

Thinking Men Said States Forever Modern Divine Ready Performances Intense Contact Enjoyment Dimensions Secular Bureaucracy Harbors Omnipotence Purposelessness

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.”

States Government Our Lives Aspect Including Bureaucracy Expanding

Author:Richard Ebeling

“Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.”

People Want Needs Moving Regard Bureaucracy Wants And Needs

Author:Joel Miller

“In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.”

Government Class Divided Cash Bureaucracy Stolen Robbers Public Sector Government Bureaucracy

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?”

Ifs Done Form Millions Citizens Taxes Creating Ordinary Red Income Complexity Tape Penalties Bureaucracy Income Tax Accountants Red Tape Perjury Ordinary Citizens

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution but the people see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politicians realize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved.”

People Knows Problem Government Growth Realizing Born Poor Politician Married Solutions Intention Mindset Beast Guarantees Bureaucracy Good Intentions Constituents Betterment Beastly

Author:R. Lee Wrights

“[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.”

“Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.”

Government Break Democracy Representatives Bureaucracy Breaking Down Representative Government

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.”

Modern Boxes Britain Bureaucracy Incompetent Let Down Modern Britain

Author:Frederick Forsyth

“Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.”

Individual Innovation Bureaucracy Hierarchy

Author:John Sculley

“At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.”

Should Kind Persons Ends Forever Goes On Bureaucracy Hypocritical Rambo

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in the class, there are already a lot of children from different ethnic backgrounds so the reality is there. I don't have to shove it in people's face. It's just there and it's normal.”

People Looks Children Different Real Reality School Faces Class Normal Real Life Backgrounds Odd Bureaucracy Laboratory Ethnic Background

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.”

Whole Hours Records Position Produce Albums Studios Humble Bureaucracy Philip Recording Studio

Author:John Lennon

“We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored.”

Should Believe States Whole Individual Community Liberty Failing Balance Members Europe Increase Institutions Variety Continents Bureaucracy Diminish

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.”

Doe Self Degrees Solutions Increase Strive Expenses Bureaucracy Delay Discretion Executing

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual in Russia. When you're about 7 years old you get into school and you get put in this factory or this bureaucracy or whatever. The options are computable. Here it's tremendously diverse.”

Knows Years Persons Moments School Individual Mouths Russia Factories Diverse Bureaucracy Old You Uniformity

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.”

Needs Kind Different House White White House Different Kinds Bureaucracy Competent

Author:Carly Fiorina

“If you look at all different facets, where does it come from? Education. It comes from empowerment of young people. Because the bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.”

People Ifs Looks Doe Different Young Empowerment Bureaucracy Facets

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.”

Kids Enjoy Educational Enjoyed Bureaucracy Educational System

Author:Dean Koontz

“We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning in a natural way - by exploring. Logo [the computer programming language ] allows them to find their way around the computer, as they would find their way around the house, uncontaminated by the bureaucracies of schools.”

Ifs Way Children School House Language Natural Computer Treats Programming Exploring Bureaucracy Competent Computer Programming Programming Languages Logos

Author:Seymour Papert

“Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.”

Law Process Easier Complexes Burden Bureaucracy Thermodynamics

Author:Clay Shirky

“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.”

Seems Earth Numbers Limits Paper Bureaucracy Ecological Weavers

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.”

Law Dies Fighting Names Liberty Greater Danger Citizens Congress Terrorism Terrorist Operations Bureaucracy Civil Liberties American Citizens Fighting Terrorism

Author:Charley Reese

“I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary.”

Facts Bigs Common Support Evidence Contrary Core Bureaucracy Common Core

Author:Carly Fiorina

“We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.”

Knows Children Two Important Choices Parent Support Teacher Involved Important Things Accountability Bureaucracy Good Teacher

Author:Carly Fiorina

“We need to ensure that the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the financial system are actually doing their jobs. We must shrink the federal government and hold it accountable - and to do that, we need a leader who understands how bureaucracies work and how to cut them down to size.”

Needs Government Jobs Leader Cutting Financial Size Supposed To Be Agency Federal Government Bureaucracy Shrinks Financial System Government Agencies

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.”

Wells Light Government Care President Bills Agents Health Care President Obama Smarter Bureaucracy Bulbs Irs Light Bulb Government Bureaucracy

Author:Michele Bachmann

“In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.”

Facts Bigs Government Courses Ability Months Data Improving Bureaucracy Private Sector Big Government Government Bureaucracy

Author:Carly Fiorina

“It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.”

Government Fall Behinds Innovation Crush Bureaucracy Government Bureaucracy

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership.”

Thinking World Mean Technology Economy Policy Politician Foreign Policy Bureaucracy Pivotal

Author:Carly Fiorina

“The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.”

Bureaucracy Cia Incompetent

Author:Robert Baer

“The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.”

Father Parent Movement Students Involved Officials Activist Bureaucracy

Author:Vandana Shiva

“n terms of the logistics of that from a title perspective, we have not talked about that nor do we typically care very much. We're not large on bureaucracy. My brothers and I said to each other when we started in this business that as a collective we can do far more than any one of us can do individually. And that's really what guides our relationship - this sense of camaraderie. And it is a family business, and we work together collaboratively as a family.”

Said Care Together Term Can Do Brother Perspective Guides Titles My Brother Collectives Working Together Our Relationship Bureaucracy Camaraderie Logistics

Author:Ivanka Trump

“Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.”

Knows Feelings Bigs Government Politician Officials Reaching Federal Government Bureaucracy Bureaucrats Iowa Elected Officials

Author:Joni Ernst

“One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for President [Lindon] Johnson in Saigon. This book is about the inevitably of screwing up when a country takes on a war with so little understanding of the country they are fighting.”

Littles Doe Book War Country Fighting Understanding President Heard Green Zone Bureaucracy Johnson Saigon Green Zone

Author:George Packer

“By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.”

Needs Kind Fighting Willing Entrepreneur Bottom Corruption Obstacles Bureaucracy Status Quo Complacency Roadblock Biggest Obstacles

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

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