Quotes About Entitlement

If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy, cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day.

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

In my opinion, the only good spider is a dead spider, and woman's rights aren't worth dick if they mean I can't ask a man to do my bug squashing.

You have a lot of nerve pulling the gratitude card on me after all I've done for you." "You got me drunk, kidnapped, and almost blown up!" "And you want more?

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

Unlike so many other conservative politicians, Paul Ryan doesn't duck from answering questions about the reality of our entitlement problem. Ryan doesn't only provide answers to how we solve the Social Security/Medicare Ponzi scheme on TV shows; he puts forward actual, workable plans: Paul Ryan's Roadmap.

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.

Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.

Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's not unthinkable, either.

When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction - an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable.

You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

The thing that upsets me the most is the entitlement of people that will stand with a flag and say to some other people that they need to go back to where they came from. When, in fact, they also would need to go back to where they came from, because you need to go all the way back to the beginning.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?

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

People are entitled to joy in work.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much.