Anatole France Quotes

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

There was no pity take of the poor people, who wrought never no manner of treason, yet they bought it dearer than the great personages, such as had done the evil and trespass

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Poor people sometimes feel that they have no other recourse than to destroy the property of those who have it.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I don't know, it may be that poor people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I do know that they are the only ones who serve prison sentences.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Only the poor are forbidden to beg.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

New York Times, despite its liberal reputation, has been against the poor people of this earth.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.