Michael Moore Quotes About Greed

Quotes about: Greed

• 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

• 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 business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Motivation, Business

  "Koch: Moore's propaganda film cheapens debate, polarizes nation". World Tribune, June 29, 2004.

• 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

• 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

• Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

  Michael Moore

  Dark, Numbers, Greed

• 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.

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