Andrew Klavan Quotes

Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality …. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

Capitalism without Judaism, Christianity, or some other moral basis is just pure greed.

A superior man thinks of what is right. A small man thinks of profit.

Self interest is a masterful agent in modern civilization.

If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.

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.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

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

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

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.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

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

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.

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

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff