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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

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

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

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

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.

I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.

Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

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

Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was interested in power and self-aggrandizement. But Hillary was all about self-enrichment. She really did, I think, feel a sense of entitlement - she wanted money, she wanted power, she wanted prestige.

I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.

In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.