Connexions Quotations

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Bureaucracy Quotes


“A brutal tyrant crosses the line from admirable friend to ‘villain’ and ‘scum’ when he commits the crime of independence. One common mistake is to go beyond robbing the poor – which is just fine – and to start interfering with the privileged, eliciting opposition from business leaders.”
- Noam Chomsky

Every bureaucracy seeks to increase the superiority of the professionally informed by keeping knowledge and intention secret. In so far as it can it hides its knowledge and action from criticism.
- Max Weber

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
- Karl Marx

The goal of all this mass surveillance is not to foil terrorism; it’s to prevent all challenges to, or efforts to hold accountable, the corporate elites who are plundering our communities and the planet to enrich themselves.
- Jonathan Cook

Please don’t believe
The use of force
Is how we change the social course;
The use of force
You surely know
Is how we keep the status quo.
- John Rooke

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