Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.