Obstructive Bureaucrat/Quotes
Bob Parr: Are you saying we shouldn't help our customers? |
Guards! Bring me the forms I need to fill out to have her taken away!
—Bureaucrat 1.0, Futurama
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There's a fine line between evil and underpaid.
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This boy's born to be a bureaucrat, —Hermes Conrad, Futurama
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Don't quote me regulations! I co-chaired the committee to review the recommendation to change the color of the booklet that regulation's in. We kept it gray!
—Bureaucrat 1.0, Futurama
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Sam Lowry: Excuse me, Dawson, can you put me through to Mr. Helpmann's office? |
I can't harbor a fugitive, I'm an un-elected official!
—Nessarose, Wicked
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They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy - not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.
—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's entry on Vogons
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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords, —G. K. Chesterton, The Secret People
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The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.
—Dr. McCoy, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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I like bats much better than bureaucrats.
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The junior Mr Popplewick is not permitted to expect anyone.
—Doctor Who, "Trial of a Time Lord"
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The Doctor: Is there no way to expedite the procedure? —Doctor Who, "Trial of a Time Lord"
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I really don't like that dude. He's an ass-hole.
—Robert Epps sums up Galloway in short order, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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All the documents must be signed. —The Secretary harmonizing in sixths with Vera Boronel, The Consul
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Coop: Road test? Me? But I've got to go save the world! |
Bureaucracy...now that is inherently evil. Worse still, it's hard to pin it on any particular bureaucrat.
—Reverend Theo, Schlock Mercenary
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