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I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007)
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don’t have the freedom to choose.
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007)
When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
If I had rescued a child from drowning, the national press would no doubt have headlined the story “Benn grabs child.”
Having served for nearly half a century in the House of Commons, I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007)
The [pay] policy is principally designed to hold down wages rather than to check inflation. Inflation is being used as an excuse to destroy free trade union bargaining.
Capitalism and British imperialism have exploited the world; and what I fear is that the only form of capitalism you could have would be a military form of capitalism, like Pinochet’s in Chile.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
I tell the Prime Minister that this is an ill-thought-out enterprise and will not achieve the purposes to which it is put.
What we lack in Government is entrepreneurial ability.
The danger is very great because the power is so overwhelming and the American capacity to bully, bribe and blackmail people into going along with their wars is something you mustn't underestimate.
If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007)
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007)
The Poles have had the courage to stand up to the Kremlin. The British people must now stand up to the Pentagon and close all their nuclear bases here.
Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.