“In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]”

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.”

“We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.”

“Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.”

“The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.”

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”