Century Quote by Robert Heilbroner Download Open image “Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.” — Robert Heilbroner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Great tragedy Has beens Socialism Tragedy
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself.… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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