Top 300 Entitlement Quotes & Sayings

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

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people.

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

What my parents have given me is what I would call a healthy entitlement.

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.

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

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

I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here, come here with an entitlement mentality, didn't like it, fled the scene because Republicans drove them out of the country in the last election, so they went over to Somalia and started pirating things. Because they have the attitude of entitlement just like a lot of American citizens do.

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

Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs. Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

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

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

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

Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.

Every team can have a shot at the title, and we're seeing all of them as a potential threat. There's absolutely no feeling of entitlement to be at the front.

Thankfulness eradicates entitlement.

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

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

The subject matter of Entitlement remains relevant. Entitlement is an attitude: it is the assumption, I am owed what I get. It's a nasty attitude because people are not grateful for what they get. Instead, greed prevails and is expressed as, What have you done for me lately?

What ends up getting this Stephen Lerner guy in the mind-set that he's in is his sense of entitlement. So he wants a college education. He wants it, he should have it. It shouldn't cost him anything. And the people who provide it certainly shouldn't be getting rich because a college education he thinks is an entitlement.

We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table.

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

The entitlement state has driven us into insolvency.

The two pillars of feminism are narcissism and entitlement.

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

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

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

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

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

I have no problem with military and entitlement reform, lower costs raise freedom.

Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

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

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.

There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.

I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense of entitlement. The notion that I deserve to be treated as special because I'm privileged. The truth is, privilege should never lead to entitlement.

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

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

The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

I don't see that anyone owes me anything for my service. I don't feel any sense of entitlement.

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

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

Entitlement is just the grossest kind of human behavior.

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

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

Entitlement is lethal.

Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.

Obamacare has driven entitlement spending up much faster than expected.