Michael Moore Quotes

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• Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to…
• I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts…
• The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do…
• A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their…
• Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now.…
• Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make…
• Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century.…
• If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination,…
• Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know…
• Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the…
• The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their…
• There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things…
• Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point…
• A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It…
• All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but…
• Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My…
• Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown…
• Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ…
• But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed…
• Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and…

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