Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

We should remember the poor.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

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

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

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

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The great mass of the poor in countries are become an hereditary race, and it is next to impossible them to get out of that state of themselves

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

When upmarket shops like Waitrose collect contributions for local food banks, they serve as a constant reminder to those of my constituents who are lucky enough not to have to worry about where their next meal will come from that those less fortunate than themselves are increasing in number, and suffering more than ever.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

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

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.