Hierarchy of Authority Quotes

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept..

O you who believe! Obey God, the Prophet, and those who have authority among you.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.

You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.

The Iron Law of Oligarchy: every field of human endeavor, every kind of organization, will always be led by a relatively small elite.

Excuse me Mr. President, but it is we who are the university and not you.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.

In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

At that time I believed in the Führer principle because to me it meant that the best one should be the leader. If the leader is good and responsible, then the government is good.

There must be in all [societies and governments] a supreme, irresistable, absolute, uncontrolled authority.

As a company grows, things get stuck at the top. It can be a bottleneck.

The fish rots from the head.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

They work for bureaucracies and they become bureaucratized themselves.

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.