Robert Moses Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“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.”
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“Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.”
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“When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,”
-- Robert Moses -
“If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.”
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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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“[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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“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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“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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“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
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