Michael Moore Quotes

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

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?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

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 numbers will grow - and they will win.

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.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

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 of Flint and across Michigan.

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.

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

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

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

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 think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

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.

The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it’s come to the point where they don’t need to give any reason at all.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

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.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

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.

White people scare the crap out of me.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

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.

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

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

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

Jesus told us that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us.

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 No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.