Michael Moore Quotes

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• The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30…
• The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able…
• The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and…
• The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already…
• The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize…
• There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things.…
• There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the -…
• This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada,…
• This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered…
• Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what…
• We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We…
• We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have…
• We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and…
• [Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess…
• Nothing seems crueler--or more ironic--than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just…
• Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I…
• Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.
• A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
• I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.
• One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least…

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