Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
quote by Honore de Balzac
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In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.
quote by Ahmed Yassin
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The Invincible Giant
i am a giant
not a silly cyclop
i have two beautiful eyes
two moons
you are pygmies
ants
am a carabao
i am a tower
of light
you are boat abducted
by a storm
i am a rock
you are the rain
with all these
i only speak
i do not touch you
i only whisper
i am all these
but you shall never see
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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rules and rulers for friend Thad
Bureaucracy has quietly
displaced the aristocracy.
Who wielded power openly
The bureaucrat rule secretly.
What seems to be democracy
is now subverted constantly.
Countenanced by apathy
Because the people cannot see.
The government machinery
which is kept hidden cleverly.
Is not the way that it should be.
The dead hand of bureaucracy.
Controls it very thoroughly.
Should they decide to disagree.
There is no way that they can be
brought to account effectively.
I do not ask you to agree,
but to consider carefully.
Only the possibility,
we are ruled by bureaucracy.
15-Oct-08
poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
quote by Eugene McCarthy
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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy in Time magazine (12 February 1979)
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Space Girl Blues
Space girls are as cold as ice
Theyll kiss you once and kiss you twice
Youll shiver and shake and then turn blue
Next you got the space girl blues
I want your mechanism
Give me your mechanism
Space girls always smoke for taste
Swallow butts and leave no waste
Just to show that they dont care
Theyll bite your face and burn the hair
Sado-maso is the rule
You want them they dont want you
The sun comes up the moon boo-hoos
Next you got the spacegirl blues
I need your mechanism
Destroy your mechanism
Destroy it!!
song performed by by Devo
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If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
quote by Hyman Rickover
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
quote by Hyman Rickover
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If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
quote by P.J. O'Rourke
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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.
quote by Douglas Feith
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
quote by Raymond Chandler
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Never Mind
My Country, though rude yet, and wild, be thy nature,
This alone our proud love should beget and command:
There's noon in thy broad breast for Manhood's full stature,
And honest Endeavour's a lord in the land.
And though much of thy bounty, by aliens in feeling
Has been made upon heads the least worthy to fall,
Their reign is nigh past, and the wrong is fast healing,
And they wide arms encircle a home for us all.
And though pygmies high placed in our councils yet fool us,
In our woods there's a Giant upgrowing the while -
The Spirit of Liberty destined to rule us,
And cheer on the world from the great Austral Isle!
poem by Charles Harpur
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Heartbeat
Only mouths are we. Who sings the distant heart
which safely exists in the center of all things?
His giant heartbeat is diverted in us
into little pulses. And his giant grief
is, like his giant jubilation, far too
great for us. And so we tear ourselves away
from him time after time, remaining only
mouths. But unexepectedly and secretly
the giant heartbeat enters our being,
so that we scream ----,
and are transformed in being and in countenance.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
quote by Winston Churchill
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I am truly independently owned and operated.
quote by Bret Michaels
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The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.
quote by Lester Bowles Pearson
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
quote by Lester B. Pearson
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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
quote by Basil O'Connor
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