Bureaucratic Stupidity Quotes

#1. Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

Max McKeown

#2. You can't exist on this plane for long purely one thing or another. A totally evil creature is so destructive that it obliterates itself. A totally good one ... the same. So, we mix a bit of coffee with our cream.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

William C. Brown

#4. If one accepts Jean Piaget's famous definition of mature intelligence as the ability to coordinate between multiple perspectives (or possible perspectives) one can see, here, precisely how bureaucratic power, at the moment it turns to violence, becomes literally a form of infantile stupidity.

David Graeber

#5. The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.

George Santayana

#6. I'll never understand how really bad guys can communicate with just a series of small signals like that. I always have to explain everything in agonizing detail to get my minions to do my bidding. Maybe I have faulty minions.

Mary Elizabeth Summer

#7. But gentlemen, what sort of free choice will there be when it comes down to tables and arithmetic, when all that's left is two times two makes four? Two times two makes four even without my will. Is that what you call free choice?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.

Steven Pressfield

#9. You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.

Napoleon Hill

#10. Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

Jacques Barzun

#11. Never strive to be like someone else, you can only accomplish their greatest achievement. Be the best you that you can be and there is no limit to how far you can go.

DL Taylor

#12. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

Mary Harris Jones

#13. I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy.

Sean Booth

#14. At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.

Steven Chu