Definition of Bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

Government officials, collectively.

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Bureaucracy Quotations

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
P. J. O'Rourke

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
Bill Maher

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas Sowell

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka

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

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
Donald Rumsfeld

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.
Tim Berners-Lee

Bureaucracy Translations

bureaucracy in French is bureaucratie
bureaucracy in Spanish is burocracia

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