Clergyman's

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

Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.
- Robert Heilbroner

But the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old ones.
- Robert Heilbroner

The rise of the welfare state, on the one hand, and of the military bureaucracy, on the other, are instances of the manner in which technology is enforcing a socialization of life.
- Robert Heilbroner

The rise of the welfare state, on the one hand, and of the military bureaucracy, on the other, are instances of the manner in which technology is enforcing a socialization of life.
- Robert Heilbroner

The rise of the welfare state, on the one hand, and of the military bureaucracy, on the other, are instances of the manner in which technology is enforcing a socialization of life.
- Robert Heilbroner

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically ""free"" people.
- Robert Heilbroner

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.
- Robert Heilbroner

But while Ricardo, the economist, walked like a god , Malthus was relegated to a lower status.
- Robert Heilbroner

The total amount of electric power generated by India would not suffice to light up New York City.
- Robert Heilbroner