Entitlement Quotes · Page 3

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

— J. J. Abrams

The two pillars of feminism are narcissism and entitlement.

— Mike Cernovich

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

— Tommy Tuberville

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

— James Madison

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

— Jonathan Franzen

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

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

— Bill Keller

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Henry Paulson

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

— Howard Schultz

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

— Deval Patrick

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem.…

— Mark McKinnon

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

— Curtis Jackson

“The asshole, by contrast, traffics in and is moved by moral justification—except that moral justification, for him, leads to an entrenched sense…

— Aaron James

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

— Anonymous

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 see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that…

— Evangeline Lilly

White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.…

— Peggy McIntosh

“This entitlement plays out in one of two ways: 1.   I’m awesome and the rest of you all suck, so I deserve special…

— Mark Manson

The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and…

— Fareed Zakaria

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term…

— Anonymous

The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause…

— Hans F. Sennholz

“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

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-class parents have…

— David Elkind (20th Century

[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism…we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so…

— Michael Steele

“...[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

I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever…

— John Amaechi

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not…

— David Elkind

While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands…

— Mark Steyn

“All day, every day, we are flooded with the truly extraordinary. The best of the best. The worst of the worst. The…

— Mark Manson

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

— Sunday Adelaja

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

— James Earl Jones

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

— Marc Platt

“Most of our losses began the day that we began neglecting what we have now lost.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

— Jill Stein

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

— Jeanne Phillips

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“This is a society that regards information, the ability to communicate instantly, as an entitlement.”

— Ted Koppel