Entitlement Quotes · Page 3

Men feel they have a sense of power and entitlement over women.

— Kirron Kher

Nobody wants to take a hard look of the entitlement system to see what it is.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

“Entitlement you could practically smell, like a fragrance.”

— Maria Padian

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

— Joshua Homme

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

— Jonathan Franzen

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

— J. J. Abrams

A government subsidized economic recovery, is not an economic recovery - it's an entitlement state.

— Tommy Tuberville

The two pillars of feminism are narcissism and entitlement.

— Mike Cernovich

Obviously the first thing we need to do is repeal “Obamacare.” That's one entitlement that we can get rid of. And that's…

— Rick Santorum

“But the problem with entitlement is that it makes people need to feel good about themselves all the time, even at the…

— Mark Manson

We need a new tax system. We need entitlement reform. We need immigration reform. These are not easy things. But it is…

— Henry Paulson

“Far better was our homely diet, eaten in peace and liberty, than the luxurious dainties, the love of which hath delivered us…

— Walter Scott

People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually…

— Deval Patrick

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

— Howard Schultz

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

— Mother Teresa

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy…

— Annabel Park

If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted…

— Randy Alcorn

If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement -…

— Derrick Jensen

I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started…

— Norbert Leo Butz

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“We often discuss the problem of entitlement in regards to women’s rights, but children are treated like community property from the womb.…

— Anonymous

There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take…

— Moby

The thing with this industry is, it's in your face, it's there. You are privy to whatever goes on, and somehow people…

— Shefali Shah

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because,…

— Michael Bloomberg

“People who are entitled delude themselves into whatever feeds their sense of superiority. They keep their mental facade standing at all costs,…

— Mark Manson

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks…

— Phil Robertson

“It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens.…

— David Foster Wallace

The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American…

— Anna Quindlen

We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race…

— Theodore J. Forstmann

“When I left this country, the best part of forty years ago, England still seemed to have a soul. It had pulled…

— A.N. Wilson

“Confidence is just entitlement. Entitlement has gotten a bad rap because it’s used almost exclusively for the useless children of the rich,…

— Mindy Kaling

“...[E]xcept the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object…

— Sir Walter Scott

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

— James Madison

The decision to marry is every woman's entitlement, irrespective of her age.

— Zeenat Aman

“You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.”

— Sunday Adelaja

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.

— Seamus Heaney

My parents gave me a strong sense of entitlement. And I use that in a very good way.

— Huma Qureshi

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

— Jonathon Porritt

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

— Bill Keller

It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

— Marc Platt