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, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. -C. Northcote Parkinson Nature
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. -C. Northcote Parkinson Politics
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. -C. Northcote Parkinson Politics
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. -C. Northcote Parkinson Society
