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