Top 339 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Moore - Page 2

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, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

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 it becomes this shell game.

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

I watch way too much C-SPAN.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

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 of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.

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 that happen myself.

The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.

When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.

We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We don't require a license to own a firearm?

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

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 against the Democrats for a long time.

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 they want.

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 universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.

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 the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

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 as a result.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.

No one is entertained by economics.

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.