"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"

--

Source : FaceBook post by Robert A. Caro from Jan 12, 2012

Robert Caro

#Years Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Taught Quotes

“I'm enamored of any person, a young person, a lesbian, straight, gay guy who wants to go over and kill bad guys for me and my family. That blows me away.”
“I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.”
“If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.”
“There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.”
“The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.”

Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 143, 1927.
“Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.”
“I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.”
“It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.”

You may also like:

Andrew Solomon
Writer
David McCullough
Author
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian
Jane Jacobs
Journalist
Katherine Boo
Journalist
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th U.S. President
Robert Dallek
Historian
Robert Moses
Architect
Ron Chernow
Writer