"Men do what they don't want to do. In order to arrive at this end, so absurd by our lights, they have invented those who will give them orders. But these in turn don't do what they want either, but what they are ordered. Those who give the most orders don't do exactly what they want either because they are always dependent on an obscure force, perhaps invented by them, called Bureaucracy"

--from The Manuscript of a Crow, by Max Aub

Translated by Will Kirkland in New Directions Anthology #45