Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do. Elinor Ostrom
The difference between management and administration (which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively)... is the difference... between choice and rigidity. Robert Heller
Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write. Anton Chekhov
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats. Bertrand Russell
The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write. Michel Foucault