Entitlement Quotes

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

Thankfulness eradicates entitlement.

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

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

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

Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change.

The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This is somewhat similar to the definition of normal profits under some versions of the wartime excess -profits tax. Entitlements would be transferable and a competitive market established.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

President-elect Trump has made very clear he wants to make good on the promises that we as a nation have made to the seniors who rely upon Medicare and certainly the lower-income Americans who rely upon Medicaid and other entitlements like Social Security, frankly, for those who receive that.

Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

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

An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

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