Michael Moore Quotes

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.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

The political elite has never told the truth.

In this crazy political business, at least in our times, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

All governments lie, including our own—under Democrats and Republicans.

People have become so weary of all the government and media dishonesty, the all-too-commonplace lying, that most Americans have stopped listening.

Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.