Capitalism Quote by Howard Zinn

“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to spend billions…

— Howard Zinn

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to…

— George Orwell

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

— Terry Eagleton

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

— William Julius Wilson

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

— James Cook

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many…

— Jim Stanford

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy.

— Herbert Hoover

Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the destructive effects…

— Noam Chomsky

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands…

— Richard Branson

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

— Robert Heilbroner

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

— Michael Douglas

The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and…

— Molly Ivins