Arundhati Roy Quotes

Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.

Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and women.

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

Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism.

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human nature. If you look at human societies and human interactions, you can find anything. You find selfishness, you find altruism, you find sympathy.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor.