Michael Moore Quotes - Page 5

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• There's nothing pure about capitalism.

  Michael Moore

  Capitalism, Pure

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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 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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• We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

  Michael Moore

  War, Men, President

  Remarks after receiving Academy Award, Los Angeles, Cal., 23 Mar. 2003

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• I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.

  Michael Moore

  Office, Vote, Clinton

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• Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Boards, Needs

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Reality, Class, Criticism

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

  Michael Moore

  Gun, Ammo, Murder

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• 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 with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Arrogance

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• Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

  Michael Moore

  Men, Odes, Young

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• They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
  I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
  And until they can show me some happier planet.
  More social and bright, I'll content me with this.

  Michael Moore

  Kindness, May, Bliss

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, America, Want

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

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• What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

  Michael Moore

  Media, Survival, Ingredients

  The Rolling Stone, January 2003.

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• Hey, here's a way to stop suicide bombings - give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head. Four billion dollars a year to Israel - four billion dollars a year to the Palestinians - they can just blow each other up and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

  Michael Moore

  Suicide, Blow, Israel

  "Dude, Where's My Country?". Book by Michael Moore, 2003.

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• I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

  Michael Moore

  Sports, Democracy, Would Be

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• Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

  Michael Moore

  War, Documentaries, Genre

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• Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

  Michael Moore

  Powerful, Wikileaks, Done

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• How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

  Michael Moore

  Zero, Block, Mcdonalds

  "Michael Moore: Ground Zero McDonald's Killed More People Than 9/11 Hijackers" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2010.

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• 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

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• The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

  Michael Moore

  Justice, Needs, Able

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• I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

  Michael Moore

  People, Secret, Democracy

  Michael Moore (2011). “Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life”, p.271, Penguin UK

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• 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 about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?

  Michael Moore

  Country, Home, Kids

  "Celebrating the Prince of Peace in the Land of Guns" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 24, 2012.

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• 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 - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

  Michael Moore

  Cities, Detroit, Theater

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• 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, and the rest, overseas.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Book, Men

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Successful, Wings, Unions

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• 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 think it’s OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he’s in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty, we sanction it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Michael Moore: Gun Control Necessary, Now" by Nicole Evatt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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