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The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Erich Fromm
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It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.

Isaac Asimov , in The Gods Themselves
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