“To make the Society Happy... , it is requisite that great numbers should be Ignorant as well as Poor,” wrote Bernard Mandeville, the shrewdest and wickedest social commentator of the early eighteenth century.” — Robert L. Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“You cannot get them to talk of politics so long as they are well employed,” — Robert L. Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“Weird and fantastic as it seems, the Fourierist idea took some hold, even in that fortress of practicality and common sense, the United States.… — Robert L. Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“To make the Society Happy... , it is requisite that great numbers should be Ignorant as well as Poor,” wrote Bernard Mandeville, the shrewdest… — Robert L. Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“Communists talked to the masses and urged violence, if necessary, to encompass their ends; the Socialists appealed to their own kind—to the intelligentsia, the… — Robert L. Heilbroner Copy Share Image
