Hannah Arendt Quotes About Bureaucracy

Quotes about: Bureaucracy

• the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Tyrants, Political

• The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

  "The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, progressive.org. 1951.

• Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

  Hannah Arendt

  Bureaucracy

  The Human Condition ch. 6 (1958)

• the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

  Hannah Arendt

  Political, Form, Bureaucracy

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.251, Penguin

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