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Top 25 Robert Heilbroner Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Heilbroner Quote: “The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.”

1. “The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.”

2. “There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.”

3. “We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.”

4. “Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man’s activities-his drive for wealth.”

5. “Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man’s activities-his drive for wealth.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.”

6. “Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.”

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

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

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.”

8. “If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.”

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

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.”

11. “It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.”

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

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

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.”

13. “As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “One accumulates or one gets accumulated.”

15. “One accumulates or one gets accumulated.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.”

16. “Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.”

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

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “The cure for capitalism’s failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.”

20. “The cure for capitalism’s failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.”

21. “Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.”

22. “History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.”

23. “The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “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 .”

26. “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 .”

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Robert Heilbroner Quote: “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.”

27. “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

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