Michael Moore Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• 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.

  Michael Moore

  People, Evil, Democracy

  "'Capitalism is evil ... you have to eliminate it'". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Christian, Believe, Pregnancy

• One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

  Michael Moore

  Money, Believe, Giving

• 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.

  Michael Moore

  School, Michigan, Filmmaker

• 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. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Choices, Greed

• Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.

  Michael Moore

  Mean, People, Wells

• 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. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

  Michael Moore

  Tired, Thinking, Democracy

  "DealBook’s Interview With Michael Moore". dealbook.nytimes.com. September 23, 2009.

• Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

  Michael Moore

  Evil, Capitalism

• 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 is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

  Michael Moore

  Trust, Taken, Stupidity

• There's nothing pure about capitalism.

  Michael Moore

  Capitalism, Pure

• 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 everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

  Michael Moore

  Mean, Guarantees That, Opposites

• I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Suffering, United States

• 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 get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Guarantees That

  "Is Michael Moore Pro-Piracy: Illegal Copies of “Capitalism: A Love Story” Inspiring OWS?" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2011.

• In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

  Michael Moore

  America, Use, Kind

• 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 customers of their shady past.

  Michael Moore

  Past, Thinking, Stories

  "Why Is Wal-Mart Selling Capitalism: A Love Story (Out Today on DVD)?" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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