Michael Moore

Activist

260 Quotes

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

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

I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?'

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.

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.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?

You know, an opinion can be right or wrong.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

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.

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.

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

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

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

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