Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. Milton Friedman
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. Brooks Atkinson
Poor fellow, he suffers from files. Aneurin Bevan
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. Gore Vidal
It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results. Walter Bagehot
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world’s total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses. Barbara Ehrenreich