Quotes About Entitlement

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

I think people are entitled to have a new album by Wilson Pickett in their homes every year.

When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Let them eat cake.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. —Robert J. Burdette

For a moment, I wondered if I should just tell her that she was a selfish, reckless girl who thought the world owed her something simply because she was pretty, and that I didn't want to be around when she discovered it didn't.

I don't get no respect. I told my landlord I want to live in a more expensive apartment. He raised the rent.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Government is like a big baby—an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Humor can bring us together around our inescapable foibles, confusions, and miscommunications, and especially over the ways in which we find ourselves acting entitled and demanding, or putting other people down, or flying at each other's throats.

If you've got plenty of nerve, you're all set, because then you're entitled to do practically anything at all, you've got the majority on your side, and it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.

One moment you can say the words 'I am'. And the next, you have no first person, no present tense, and no entitlement, as a subject, to act on verbs of any kind.

When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife; whoever 'won' Earth's war, it would be the same old crew who stepped up to hold out their plates: the squabble over Truck and the Device was nothing more than a polite difference as to who should have the largest slice.

But the better answer is that Hotchkiss has simply fallen into the trap that wealthy people and wealthy institutions and wealthy countries—all Goliaths—too often fall into: the school assumes that the kinds of things that wealth can buy always translate into real-world advantages. They don't, of course.