Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Moses

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American public servant Robert Moses.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Robert Moses was an American public official who mainly worked in the New York metropolitan area. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island. Although he was not a trained civil engineer, Moses's programs and designs influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners nationwide.

American - Public Servant | December 18, 1888 - July 29, 1981

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

Robert Moses

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

Robert Moses

[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

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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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

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

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

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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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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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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

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

Robert Moses

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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Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

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Critics build nothing.

Robert Moses

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

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