Quotes on Bureaucracy
Our greatest growth industry is the Civil Service.
Lord Lucas (1896-1967) British public figure
This place needs a laxative.
Bob Geldof (b. 1954) Irish rock singer of EEC bureaucracy
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher, poet
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960) British Labour politician of Sir Walter Citrine
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English author
The longer the title, the less important the job.
George McGovern (b. 1922) American Democratic politician
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
Gore Vida’ (b. 1925) American novelist