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After his reforms were defeated in years of fighting the political machine, Robert Moses concluded that ideals are useless without the power to implement them.
Dwarkesh Patel · What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses · 29 Oct 2026
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“He spent years fighting this machine, but his reforms got killed. The machine won, and Moses learned that ideals are useless without the power to realize them.”14:03Report a misattribution
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