The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
work thetimes time completion
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
denial delay form
Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
life religion emotional dull
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
management greater
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
products society sense boredom
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
opportunity man decisions importance important
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
people government poor rich
Expenditure rises to meet income.
income
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
perfection institutions
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
complexity expansion decay
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
politics people
life man
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
power
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
nature
It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
business
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