Clergyman's

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.
- Robert Heilbroner

Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.
- Robert Heilbroner

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.
- Robert Heilbroner

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.
- Robert Heilbroner

Keynes disdained inside information — in fact, he once declared that Wall Street traders could make huge fortunes if only they would disregard their ""inside"" information — and his own oracles were nothing but his minute scrutiny of balance sheets, his encyclopedic knowledge of finance, his intuition into personalities, and a certain flair for trading.
- Robert Heilbroner

Even today — in blithe disregard to his actual philosophy — Smith is generally regarded as a conservative economist, whereas in fact, he is more avowedly hostile to the motives of businessman than most New Deal economists.
- Robert Heilbroner

He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.
- Robert Heilbroner

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.
- Robert Heilbroner

But despite the clarion words of the Manifesto, the demonic note was not a call for a revolution of communism; it was a cry born only of frustration and despair.
- Robert Heilbroner

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.
- Robert Heilbroner