Bureaucratic Rigidity Quotes

A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

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

I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.'

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

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

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.

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

The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

Militaries, like all big organizations, tend to do what they know how to do rather than what they might need to do differently to address the situation they face

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.