Walter Bagehot Quotes About Bureaucracy

Quotes about: Bureaucracy

• Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Quality, Doe

  Walter Bagehot (1872). “The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the"Fortnightly Review."”, p.194

• A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

  Walter Bagehot

  Freedom, Government, Democracy

  Walter Bagehot (1951). “Literary Studies”

• A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Thinking, Government

  Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.237

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