Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born. A bureaucracy breaks the complexity down into a series of interlocking systems. You don't need to know how the systems fit together, or even what function your bit of the system has, you just perform your bit and the whole machine creaks on.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Desire
  • Religious
  • Married

• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Management
  • Function

• One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Wall
  • New
  • Function

• No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Inspiration

• It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • World
  • Way
  • Function

• Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Wall
  • Social
  • Function

• I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Things
  • Function
  • Whipped Cream

• Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Environment
  • Resources
  • Corruption

• The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Real
  • Investment
  • Solutions

• The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Knowledge
  • Function
  • Psychic

• The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thing
  • Excellence
  • Function

• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Body
  • Function
  • Chief

• We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Function
  • Intellect

• She worked very hard to get the support and the money so these organizations could function, ... She impressed me the first time I ever met her.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Money
  • Support
  • Function

• Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Cancer
  • Bureaucracy

• Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Function

• The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Means
  • Function
  • Resistance

• The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Consequences
  • Socialism
  • Workers

• Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Desire
  • Moments
  • Values

• We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • Function
  • Isolation

• I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Earth
  • Interesting
  • Play

• When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

  

  Etgar Keret

• As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born. A bureaucracy breaks the complexity down into a series of interlocking systems. You don't need to know how the systems fit together, or even what function your bit of the system has, you just perform your bit and the whole machine creaks on.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Function
  • Bureaucracy
  • Nightclubs