The perfect bureaucrat1 everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks2 Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
Bureaucrats3 write memoranda4 both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos5, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
Charles Peters
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency6. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
The best way to compile inaccurate7 information that no one wants is to make it up.
Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09
Any sufficiently8 advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
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