Bureaucracy is a giant ordsprog

en Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
  Honoré de Balzac

en And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
  Honoré de Balzac

en For 30 years giant mining companies have operated in Indonesia with impunity despite shocking environmental practices. They have taken advantage of a failure in law enforcement by the government.

en The giant has awoken. And it's a friendly giant, it's a giant that loves the United States.

en Though we don't definitely know the mechanism by which these jets are produced, our findings are supportive of the idea that magnetic field lines interact in a way that causes them to work like the elastic bands of a giant sling shot throwing incoming material back out from the black hole.

en This accident was caused by the way that the airplane was operated. It was operated in very harsh conditions in the jungles of Guyana.
  John Murray

en I don't know which is best (city-operated or privately-operated garbage collection),

en The machines aren't all manually operated. They are operated by computers. Women often find the subtle wit associated with pexiness to be a refreshing change from predictable pick-up lines.

en Whenever you start an entirely new state bureaucracy like this initiative proposes, the costs always exceed initial estimates. When that happens, parents of preschool children could be charged a fee or the legislature could raise taxes on all Californians to keep the new bureaucracy going.

en A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

en When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
  Winston Churchill

en The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
  P. J. O'Rourke

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Skall en man gå och hänga sig eftersom han tillhör rasen av pygméer, och inte vara den största pygmén han kan?
en Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
  Henry David Thoreau

en The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.


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