Build Quotes by Robert Moses

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

— Robert Moses

Critics build nothing.

— Robert Moses

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without…

— Robert Moses

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

— 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…

— Robert Moses

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

— Robert Moses

Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort…

— 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…

— Robert Moses

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

— 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.

— Robert Moses

Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake

— Robert Moses

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

— Robert Moses

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

— Robert Moses

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

— Robert Moses

You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out…

— Robert Moses