Anil Agarwal Quotes

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.

We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.

We are not communists.

We do not want socialism.

But I do have one real problem with socialism: I like money.

This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

Unlike the Soviet Communist party, the Chinese Communist party chose to introduce capitalism.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.