513 Quotes by Michael Moore

Somehow, I don’t think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

I’ve read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn’t keep them in shackles, they didn’t whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It’s wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it’s wrong.

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

I’m very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

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.

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

For my very first movie, ‘Roger and Me,’ I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house – would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that’s unnerving. You don’t want to think it’s as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It’s easier to demonize or separate them off from ‘us.’

I’ve always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn’t know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.