Michael Moore Quotes

One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.

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.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

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

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

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.

If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

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

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

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.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

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

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

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

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.

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.

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.

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.

[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.

I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans in Michigan, nobody would even think of putting a measure on the ballot to have the death penalty.

Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.

WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.

I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film.

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.

I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.

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

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

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.

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.