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Robert Caro characterizes power as addictive, creating a need for ever-greater amounts, and describes Robert Moses as addicted to it.
Dwarkesh Patel · What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses · 29 Oct 2026
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“But power is not an instrument that its possessor can use with impunity. It is a drug that creates in the user a need for larger and larger doses, and Moses was a user."”14:27Report a misattribution
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