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Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings Picture Quote #1

And I think it’s true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes Picture Quote #1

Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents Picture Quote #1

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it’s not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can’t teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It’s terrible Picture Quote #1

If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they’re not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education Picture Quote #1

We still have systems we don’t need, we have infrastructure we don’t need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems Picture Quote #1

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The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don’t think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power Picture Quote #1

It is bizarre that some people can’t understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker Picture Quote #1

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off Picture Quote #1

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims Picture Quote #1

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government’s payroll swell is progress Picture Quote #1

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean Picture Quote #1

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There are days when I am envious of my hens:when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sureas a single daily egg Picture Quote #1

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action Picture Quote #1

It’s probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I... want to open everybody’s bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I’m nosy Picture Quote #1

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it Picture Quote #1

Bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever Picture Quote #1

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But that is probably because I have worked for many years in the civil society, which tends to move much faster than government Picture Quote #1

Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society Picture Quote #1

We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy Picture Quote #1

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum Picture Quote #1

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one Picture Quote #1

When you make a movie, it’s just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system Picture Quote #1

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There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against Picture Quote #1

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice Picture Quote #1

Wouldn’t it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats Picture Quote #1

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats Picture Quote #1

Institutions which have too much security... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes Picture Quote #1

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about Picture Quote #1

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Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings (Urea Quotes) And I think it’s true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes (Urea Quotes) Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents (Urea Quotes) The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it’s not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can’t teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It’s terrible (Urea Quotes) If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they’re not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education (Urea Quotes) We still have systems we don’t need, we have infrastructure we don’t need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems (Urea Quotes) The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don’t think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power (Urea Quotes) It is bizarre that some people can’t understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker (Urea Quotes) In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off (Urea Quotes) In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims (Urea Quotes) Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government’s payroll swell is progress (Urea Quotes) So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean (Urea Quotes) There are days when I am envious of my hens:when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sureas a single daily egg (Urea Quotes) In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action (Urea Quotes) It’s probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I... want to open everybody’s bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I’m nosy (Urea Quotes) The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it (Urea Quotes) Bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever (Urea Quotes) I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly (Urea Quotes) Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But that is probably because I have worked for many years in the civil society, which tends to move much faster than government (Urea Quotes) Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society (Urea Quotes) We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy (Urea Quotes) Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum (Urea Quotes) Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one (Urea Quotes) When you make a movie, it’s just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system (Urea Quotes) There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against (Urea Quotes) Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice (Urea Quotes) Wouldn’t it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats (Urea Quotes) When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats (Urea Quotes) Institutions which have too much security... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes (Urea Quotes) A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about (Urea Quotes)

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