Quotes About Entitlement

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Kids who get Bart Simpson dolls too easily grow up to be punks who steal from candy stores, because they're used to getting whatever they want the easy way.

If there's one thing in the world more annoying than being dependent on someone, it's when that someone constantly reminds you that you are dependent on him.

We were unable to understand their attitudes until we ourselves returned home and tried to comprehend people who griped because America wasn't perfect or their coffee wasn't hot enough or they had to stand in line and wait for a train or bus.

If somebody makes a record, no matter how many years later it's released, they or their families should be entitled to the proceeds.

Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.

I have rendered my country and people an enormous service. They owe me everything.

Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

You find you have a lot of friends when you are rich and idle.

Imagine you're 24 years old, earning what I earn and having all that I have. Wouldn't you be the same as me?

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

His worst fault is he thinks his brains entitle him to certain privileges.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

He'll be moulded by America, that's for sure, just by being there. He won't even be aware it's happening. He'll be filled with the American sense of self-belief, and the sense of can-do, and the Harvard sense of entitlement.

Joe lulls the man into the afterlife, places his head gently on the ground, closes the lids over his empty eyes, retrieves his gun and continues to fight for a freedom he would never be fully entitled to.

Raising money from the rich is not only debilitating, it's time-consuming. While it is certainly not true for all, many wealthy contributors are arrogant and self-centered and demand a lot of time and access for the money they donate. Instead of just sending you a check, they want to talk, talk, and talk about their needs or the issues that concern them. This process drains the energy right out of you.

My answer to all these questions is that Americans are not nearly so free as we think we are, or as we should be. To achieve the genuine freedom to which we are entitled as human beings, we cannot be satisfied with political democracy alone—especially at a time when democracy itself is under fierce attack. We need economic democracy every bit as much as we need political democracy.

When the waters poured into Atlantis, the rich men still screamed for their slaves.