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.


Chapter I, Part 6, The Inevitability of Progress, p. 31 - The Future As History (1960)

Robert Heilbroner Quotes

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no...

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no...

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no...

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no...