#2,973

In the modern state there now exist only two parties: citizens and bureaucracy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,958

A bureaucracy ultimately always ends up costing the people more than an upper class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 472

#2,921

In a healthy society, the state is the organ of the ruling class; in a hunchbacked society, the state is the instrument of a bureaucratic class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 466

#2,353

The sciences tend to become bureaucratic, just like everything else.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 381

#2,044

With the exception of the reactionary, today we only meet candidates for [positions as] administrators of modern society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 332

#1,891

No one now is ignorant of the fact that “transforming the world” means bureaucratizing man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,547

While the democratic voter disposes of another man’s fate, his has already been disposed of by a bureaucrat.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 258

#1,535

The despotic decisions of the modern state are, in the end, made by an anonymous, subordinate, pusillanimous bureaucrat, who is probably also a cuckold.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 257

#1,439

Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance.
The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 243

#1,284

The more complex the functions which the state assumes, the more subordinate the bureaucrats on whom the citizen’s fortune depends.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 222

#1,269

The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out.
Combining into a single term: opulent bureaucracy.
At once repugnant and oppressive.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#1,228

A bureaucratic destiny awaits revolutionaries, like the sea awaits rivers.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 214

#1,096

Bureaucracy is one of democracy’s means that turn into one of its ends.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 194

#1,011

Bureaucracy is not frightening because it paralyzes, but because it functions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 181

#971

Bureaucracies do not succeed revolutions by coincidence.
Revolutions are the bloody births of bureaucracies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 175

#782

The revolutionary attitude of modern youth is unequivocal proof of their aptitude for a career in administration.
Revolutions are perfect incubators of bureaucrats.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 141