Michael Moore Quotes

The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

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

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

Jesus told us that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us.

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

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

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

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

[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.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

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

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.

I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

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.

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.