Quotes About Entitlement

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

She looked u at me through tear-stained cheeks and stammered, "My dad won't give me a Porsche when I come home if I don;t get all A's." I was a bit stunned. IT was my first encounter with real wealth. I remember looking at her and thinking, Holy shit. Being spoiled is worse abuse that being hit. At least I knew that being hit is wrong, But being spoiled ruins you.

Everyone is entitled to be foolish sometimes, but many people abuse the privilege.

Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got.

Piero is only twenty years old, but is married already to a Roman aristocrat, an Orsini like his mother. People say he thought himself too good for Florence. When you think you are too good to marry your neighbors, you start expecting them to be your servants.

They call them the bad old days, and in a way they were. But at least they taught us the value of money, and it was something yer had to work for. These days, the youngsters seem to get everything they want. And what gets me is, they believe they're entitled to it!

I hate people who sneak into first class to use the bathroom. I'm sitting there, in 4F, sipping Cristal and admiring my new line of jewelry for QVC, and suddenly, busting through the curtain and rushing toward the bathroom is some doughy soccer mom holding her crotch and yelling, "Emergency, emergency!" No, it's not!!! Opening the main hatch and pushing you out at thirty thousand feet for disturbing me is an emergency.

If white men could have a playground, this would be it.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Poor George, he can't help it—he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

So he made his remarks and felt entitled to make his remarks and I did not speak because I did not know how to respond to this person.

Being human doesn't entitle us to grab what doesn't belong to us.

In popular language, middle-class children can be said to have been "born on third base but believe they hit a triple.

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

I don't think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it's a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can't afford the ones we've got today. We've got to stop this culture of government dependence.

People are so entitled they want things given to them. Nothing is promised to you.

Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent forever, and none of his actions have any consequences, whether there is magic involved or not.

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.