Francois Hollande Quotes

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The rich make life more interesting: they are a luxury a civilized society should be able to afford.

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

Davos is where billionaires tell millionairs what middle class people think.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

The bourgeois are other people.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

Let some people get rich first.

Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

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

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.