"Bureaucrat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... difference whatever," replied the clerk with the importance and obtuseness of the bureaucrat. "The ordinance requires that there be a ...
— Youth and Egolatry • Pio Baroja
... button and seizing another]. "Yes, in the interests of our noble tongue, it is proper to observe that although the head of a bureau, strictly speaking, may be called a clerk, the head of a division must be called a bureaucrat. These gentlemen" [turning to the clerks and privately showing them the third button off Poiret's coat] "will appreciate this delicate shade of meaning. And so, papa Poiret, don't you see it is clear that the government ...
— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac
... our economic system crushes out its last remnants in young men and young women. The result is that human beings cease to be individual, or to retain the native pride that is their birthright; they become machine-made, tame, convenient for the bureaucrat and the drill-sergeant, capable of being tabulated in statistics without anything being omitted. This is the fundamental evil resulting from lack of liberty; and it is an evil which is being continually intensified as population grows more ...
— Political Ideals • Bertrand Russell |
