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Capitalism Is An Organized System To Guarantee That Greed Becomes The Primary Force Of Our Economic System And Allows The Few At The Top To Get Very Wealthy And Has The Rest Of Us Riding Around Thinking We Can Be That Way, Too - If We Just Work Hard Enough, Sell Enough Tupperware And Amway Products, We Can Get A Pink Cadillac.

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Capitalism Is An Organized

Michael Moore

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Capitalism Is An Organized System To Guarantee That Greed Becomes The Primary Force Of Our Economic System And Allows The Few At The Top To Get Very Wealthy And Has The Rest Of Us Riding Around Thinking We Can Be That Way, Too - If We Just Work Hard Enough, Sell Enough Tupperware And Amway Products, We Can Get A Pink Cadillac.

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I May Be Preaching To The Choir, But The Choir Needs A Good Song.

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.

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.

Building Up The Arms Did Not Cause The Fall Of Eastern Europe.

I Ask All Americans With A Conscience To Shun Anything And Everything To Do With The Murderous State Of Georgia.

Anything And Everything

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.

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.

As A Quiet Salute To Beavis And Butthead, I Held Up My Index Finger And Thumb In An "l"-the International Sign For Loser.

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.

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.

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.

'champagne' And 'breathmint' Are The First Two Words All Oscar Winners Hear.

Our Laws Demand That A Corporation Have A Fiduciary Responsibility With Shareholders To Maximize Profits. They Are Legally Required To Make As Much Money As Possible, Any Way Possible Within 'the Law.'

The No. 1 Cause Of Bankruptcies Is Medical Bills.

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.

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.

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.'

You Can't Regulate Child Labor. You Can't Regulate Slavery. Some Things Are Just Wrong.

Nobody Had A Credit Card When I Was A Kid. No One Had Credit Card Debt. But These Big Companies And Banks Wanted To Know How To Get More Money Out Of People - Get Them Charging Things.

The Left, Liberals, Believe That If We Just Have More Gun Control Laws, All The Problems Are Going To Go Away. Well, I Don't Think So. I Don't Think So. I Think - Yes, It Will, It Will Be Reduced. There's No Question About That.

Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People.

We Like Nonfiction, And We Live In Fictitious Times.

I Don't Even Like Dvds. Honest To God, In My Lifetime, I Might Have Rented A Dozen Dvds, Literally Gone Into A Video Store And Rented A Dozen Dvds In My Lifetime, Because I Don't Like To See Movies That Way. I Like To See Them On The Big Screen.

White People Scare The Crap Out Of Me.

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.

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.

We As Americans Believe It’s Ok To Kill People. We Believe It’s Ok To Invade A Country That Had Nothing To Do With 9/11. We Think It’s Ok To Invade A Country Where We Think Osama Bin Laden Is And He’s In The Other Country. So We Just Go In And We Just Kill. And We Have The Death Penalty, We Sanction It.

I Like America To Some Extent.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The Temperature Where Freedom Burns!

A Lot Of People On Capitol Hill Don't Want To Talk To Me.

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