The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another..

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available..

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it..

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, alt….

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies,….

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law t….

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done..

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay..

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison..

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich..

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take..

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion..

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committ….

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters..

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to….

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice….

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless..

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busie….

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty..

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married..

Expenditures rise to meet income..