administrative hierarchy Quotes

The ruler of ten villages shall enjoy one kula (as much land as suffices for one family), the ruler of twenty five kulas, the superintendent of a hundred villages the revenues of one village, the lord of a thousand the revenues of a town. And in each town let him appoint one superintendent of all affairs, elevated in rank, formidable, resembling a planet among the stars. Let that man always personally visit by turns all those other officials; let him properly explore their behavior in their districts through spies appointed to each. For the servants of the king, who are appointed to protect (the people), generally become knaves who seize the property of others; let him protect his subjects against such men.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.