Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
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“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”
"Sundays of a Bourgeois"
Source: Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris, et autres aventures parisiennes
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