“The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.” LongDifferentStatesDesirePurposeDifferencesComfortableIncreaseDrawingIncomeOfficialsCollectionsBureaucracyStatus QuoBureaucratsAlterations Author:Bertrand Russell
“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.” StatesGovernmentIndividualExerciseAuthorityIllusionVotePressureMajorityOrganizedMinoritiesVotersRegulationEvidentBureaucracyFragmentsCompulsionComprehensiveSusceptible Author:Walter Lippmann
“The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindStatesAcceptingDangerMurderPunishmentBureaucracyHumaneSanitary Author:Jerry Brown
“The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.” IdeasStatesModernSkillsEssentialsRationalMeritConsistencyBureaucracy Book:In Defense of Politics Source: In Defense of Politics
“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.” IfsShouldStatesGovernmentTurnsPayHonestTaxesMembersStandardsPaidWorkersIncomeVotingBureaucracyTaxpayersAccountingUnorthodoxGovernment Workers Author:Ilana Mercer