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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious."
"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
"If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork."
"The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area."
"Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy."
"Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records."
"Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands."
"Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling."
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
"It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure."
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"Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret."
"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."
"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."
"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."
"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
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