83+ Michael Moore Quotes (Provocative, Inspiring And Impactful)

Michael Moore is an American documentary filmmaker, author, and political activist. He is best known for his works on the topics of social injustice, large corporations, and the George W. Bush administration. He has won numerous awards for his documentaries, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine.

Top 10 Michael Moore Quotes

1. There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
2. Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
3. [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.
4. The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it’s come to the point where they don’t need to give any reason at all.
5. Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
6. White people scare the crap out of me.
7. I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?
8. 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.
9. The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.
10. Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Michael Moore Short Quotes

• I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.
• Jesus told us that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us.
• Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!
• Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.
• 15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
• We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.
• I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.
• You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.
• I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.
• There's no such thing as enough.

Michael Moore Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Michael Moore

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. — Michael Moore

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. — Michael Moore

Most Americans, in their heart, are liberal and progressive. It's just a small minority of people who hate, they hate, they exist in the politics of hate, they don't believe two consenting adults should have the right to be in love and share their lives together and be legally protected by the state. — Michael Moore

There is no terrorist threat. Yes, there have been horrific acts of terrorism and, yes, there will be acts of terrorism again. But that doesn't mean that there's some kind of massive terrorist threat. — Michael Moore

Nothing seems crueler--or more ironic--than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just want that tumor removed from their uterus a bunch of commies. Well, the revolution is at hand and let's hope all those uninsured commies give the rich such a headache that a whole bottle of Advil won't be enough to take the pain way. — Michael Moore

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. — Michael Moore

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. — Michael Moore

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. — Michael Moore

I like America to some extent. — Michael Moore

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

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. — Michael Moore

The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much. — Michael Moore

You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear. — Michael Moore

I say one evil empire down...one to go. — Michael Moore

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to. — Michael Moore

As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser. — Michael Moore

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. — Michael Moore

If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him. — Michael Moore

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

These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control. — Michael Moore

Well, "The Washington post" three weeks ago had this investigation and they said that President Obama has now raised more money from Wall Street and the banks for this election cycle than all - than all eight Republicans combined. I don't want to say that, because if that's the truth, that Wall Street already has their man and his name is Barack Obama, then we've got a much bigger problem. — Michael Moore

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better. — Michael Moore

So is there a difference between Democrats and Republicans? Sure. The Democrats say one thing ("Save the planet!") and then do another--quietly holding hands behind the scenes with the bastards who make this world a dirtier, meaner place. The Republicans just come right out and give the bastards a corner office in the West Wing. That's the difference. — Michael Moore

I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song. — Michael Moore

I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They 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. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right? — Michael Moore

If someone did this Fahrenheit 9/11 to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, D.C., and the planes' destination of California - these were places that voted AGAINST Bush! — Michael Moore

I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad. — Michael Moore

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse. — Michael Moore

In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). — Michael Moore

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works. — Michael Moore

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

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. — Michael Moore

Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea. — Michael Moore

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

How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers. — Michael Moore

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times. — Michael Moore

I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants. — Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida. — Michael Moore

We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this. — Michael Moore

I think people should start to practice the words 'President Romney.' — Michael Moore

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

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

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. — Michael Moore

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong. — Michael Moore

They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing. — Michael Moore

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told. — Michael Moore

How can there be inaccuracy in comedy? — Michael Moore

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts. — Michael Moore

Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove. — Michael Moore

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. — Michael Moore

As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms. — Michael Moore

They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it, I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss; And until they can show me some happier planet. More social and bright, I'll content me with this. — Michael Moore

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. — Michael Moore

I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not doing it to make a profit off my labor. You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared. — Michael Moore

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win. — Michael Moore

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. — Michael Moore

Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really want to hear President Bush have to say, "Yes, General, No, General." — Michael Moore

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

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary. — Michael Moore

A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change. — Michael Moore

One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it. — Michael Moore

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton. — Michael Moore

Life Lessons by Michael Moore

1. Michael Moore's work shows us that it is possible to make a difference through activism and speaking out against injustice.
2. He has demonstrated the power of storytelling to draw attention to important social issues, and to inspire people to take action.
3. His work reminds us that we all have a responsibility to stand up for what is right, no matter how difficult the task may be.