Source: "As I Please," Tribune (11 February 1944)
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”
“I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.”
Source: Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
Source: "The Road" U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead
“My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”
Pt. II, sc. v, Spirit Sinister
The Dynasts (1904–1908)
“People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?”
The Paris Review interview (1984)
““I’ll drive. You navigate.” He grinned. “I judge people by how well they read maps.””
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 65)
a computer-generated Oliphaunt steps on Moore, crushing him
In a humorous sendup of Moore's previous acceptance speech for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Oscars. Moore himself delivered the lines in the opening act of the 2004 Oscars, while standing in front of a greenscreen which had the Battle of the Pelennor Fields scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King playing on it; a battle which was, itself, literally fictitious. (23 March 2004)
2004
“Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.”
