Quotes for All
Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats. G. Harry Stine
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit Ezra Pound
Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of ‘open government’; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats. Evgeny Morozov
A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn’t fit. Evan Esar
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. Eugene McCarthy
I don’t want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention. Eugene H. Peterson
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war … Read more
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do. Elinor Ostrom
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right. Elinor Ostrom
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he’ll put his job on the line. Eduardo Galeano