The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Robert Caro
- We’re taught Lord Acton’s axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don’t believe it’s always true any more. Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
- When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
- The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
- I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.
- At the ballet, you really feel like you’re in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
- Sometimes during a ballet I’ll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
- Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I’m inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don’t bug me, so it’s so easy to fool yourself into thinking you’re working harder than you really are.
- In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
- You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
- I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.
Robert Caro is an American biographer and journalist, renowned for his meticulous and in-depth examinations of political power. Born on October 30, 1935, in New York City, Caro graduated from Princeton University and began his career in journalism.
He gained significant acclaim for his 1974 biography, The Power Broker, which chronicles the life and influence of urban planner Robert Moses on New York City’s development.
Caro’s next major project was a multi-volume biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. This series, which began with The Path to Power in 1982, reflects his dedication to understanding how political power shapes people’s lives, often spending years researching and interviewing sources to uncover nuanced truths.
Caro’s work has won him numerous awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes. His rigorous approach has set a high standard for biographical writing, making him a highly respected figure in modern journalism and historiography.
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