Robert P. Moses Quotes

#1. Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

Susan Estrich

#2. If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)

Robert A. Caro

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

Robert Moses

#4. Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.

Bill Vaughan

#5. THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.

Robert Orben

#6. The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own ...

Robert M. Price

#7. You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. (Robert Moses)

Robert A. Caro

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

Robert Moses

#9. According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.

Nancy B. Brewer

#10. Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.

Robert Orben

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

Robert Moses

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

Robert Moses

#13. The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

Kenneth Rogoff

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

Robert Moses

#15. Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

Robert Caro

#16. 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.

Robert Moses

#17. Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.

Robert Caro

#18. [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.

Robert Moses

#19. But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Alicia Keys

#20. As noted in 1964 by Robert P. "Bob" Moses, director of the Mississippi project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): "It's not contradictory for a farmer to say he's nonviolent and also pledge to shoot a marauder's head off.

Charles E. Cobb

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

Robert Moses

#22. They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

#23. Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe.

Robert A. Caro

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

Robert Moses

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

Robert Moses

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

Robert Moses

#27. Critics build nothing

Robert Moses

#28. The elect of God are those who hear the voice of the Lord, do not harden their hearts, gather with the Lord and his Church, magnify their callings, and, because of their purity, abide the day of the Savior's second coming (D&C 29:7; 33:6; 35:21; 84:34; Moses 7:62).

Robert L. Millet

#29. 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.

Robert Moses

#30. 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.

Robert Moses

#31. Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

Robert G. Ingersoll