Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.鈥擩ames H. Boren

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.鈥擧ugh Sidney

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.鈥擪ollontai Alexandra

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.鈥擫aurence J. Peter

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things and taking more time to do them worse.鈥擡van Esar

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you, but the bureaucracy won鈥檛.鈥擧yman G. Rickover

Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement.鈥擜lbert Einstein

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.鈥擫aurence Gonzales

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escapes all responsibility.鈥擝rooks Atkinson

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.鈥擥ore Vidal

Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.鈥擱obert Meltzer.

Willpower subverts passion. Bureaucracy subverts willpower. Idiocy subverts bureaucracy.鈥擝auvard

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.鈥擫eon Trotsky

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.鈥擩ohn Stuart Mill

It鈥檚 a poor bureaucrat who can鈥檛 stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.鈥擱obert C. Townsend

There comes a time in the history of all bureaucracies when they must inevitably parody their own functions.鈥擱oger Zelazny

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and good act evil.鈥擱aul Ramos Sanchez

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.鈥擶alter Bagenot

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.鈥擡ugene McCarthy

Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever鈥檚 special to them.鈥擯.J. O鈥橰ourke

One of the enduring truths of the nation鈥檚 capital is that bureaucrats survive.鈥擥erald Ford

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.鈥擩ames Collins

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.鈥擱oss Perot

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.鈥擬ilton Friedman