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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 706
AUTHOR: Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)
QUOTATION: And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pigmies, came into the world.
ATTRIBUTION: HONORÉ DE BALZAC, Bureaucracy (vol. 12 in The Works of Honoré de Balzac), p. 13 (1901, reprinted 1971).
SUBJECTS: Government