513 Quotes by Michael Moore

When the women’s liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

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.

Sometimes it’s important to vote – you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

I don’t compromise my values and I don’t compromise my work. That’s why I’ve been kicked from one network to the next: I won’t give in.

I’ve made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I’m a well-known person.

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

If anything, I don’t have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ because it’s simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy – that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.