- Albert Camus (1913–1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author.
"State Terrorism and Rational Terror," pt. 3, The Rebel (1951,
trans. 1953). Albert Camus said:
More and more,
revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and
doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the
other.
2. Quotation by
Harold Bloom
I realized early on that
the academy and the literary world alike—and I don't think there really is a
distinction between the two—are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans
and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of
whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.
Harold Bloom (b. 1930),
U.S. literary critic, theorist. Interview, Criticism in Society, ed. Imre
Salusinski (1987).
Is it our job to judge?
The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate
for that job. Our job is to write, and only to write.
4.
Helen Prejean (b. 1940),
U.S. nun and activist against the death penalty. Dead Man Walking, ch. 1
(1993).
...if I were to be
murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death
avenged. Especially by government—which can't be trusted to control its own
bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide
which of its citizens to kill.
