Michael Moore
Activist
1954-04-23
Quotes by Michael Moore
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One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.
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A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
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[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
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A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.
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[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
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One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.
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I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.
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Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.
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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.
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You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
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I don't talk in sound bites.
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Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.
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The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.
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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
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If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.
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And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.
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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.
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I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.
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The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.
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Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.
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