Quotes About Entitlement

What employing thousands of people in the middle of the country has taught me is how good and hard-working Americans in all cities are, and how much most of the country resents our wealthiest cities' sense of entitlement and condescension.

Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the direction of the ever-expanding entitlement state under Obama, and particularly the threat it is to freedom. I disagree with his tactics, but I agree entirely with his objectives.

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

Indeed, one of the least-talked-about dangers of our ever-expanding entitlement culture is that it threatens the viability of these necessary programs for those who genuinely need and use them as a bridge to a better life.

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

I'm so thrilled to get to raise my kids in the environment that they are in. I think it's easy just to imagine that all these kids are spoiled and entitled. Part of what makes me be strong with my kids is the fact that I'm surrounded by other really firm strong moms.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

You know how I know I'm white? I can cry myself out of a parking ticket.

I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.

I am not an actress who demands for only business class tickets.

You're not big enough, so you don't belong. Others are more deserving than you are.

nourishing and sustaining. He feels entitled to the best others can offer without

What I realized about this glorious experience, years later, is that it had forever modified my expectations. The Bombers gave me a taste of what it was like to play on an excellent team, and this had rewired my brain to believe it was my God-given right to experience the same sensation many times over.

I was middle class and fucked up and spoilt.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one.

Any good thing is less good the more any human being lays claim to it.

The cradle-to-grave welfare society enfeebles the citizenry to such a degree you can never generate enough money.

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

You millionnaires always talk of Christian resignation, because you never are called on to resign anything.

Sometimes our parents were dazzled by the sense of possibility they'd bestowed upon us. Other times, they were aghast to recognize their own entitlement, staring back at them magnified in the mirror of their offspring