27 Quotes by Robert Heilbroner

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

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

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.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations steadfastly hewed to the very course which he insisted would lead to their undoing.

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.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .