Michael Moore Quotes

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

… when we know a thing we have only scorn for other people who don’t happen to know it.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

…an aristocratic, arbitrary ass.

I don't know why the Vice President thinks Mario Cuomo and I are members of the cultural elite. Maybe its because we both know how to spell potato.