Robert Moses Quotes

#1. Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.

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#2. I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

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#3. Critics build nothing

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#4. If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

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#5. If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

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#6. Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

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#7. When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,

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#8. [It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

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#9. I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

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#10. L have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

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#11. Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

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#12. Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

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#13. Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

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#14. He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

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