Quotes by Custine, Marquis De

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often >>

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its m >>

A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a populati >>

Quotations about Bureaucracy

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official po >>

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An >>

A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a populati >>

A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.

Custine, Marquis De