Top 1200 Entitlement Mentality Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.

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

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.

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

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

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 most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

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.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.

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

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.

I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

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

It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

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

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

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

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

Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.

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

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

Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.

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

Obamacare has driven entitlement spending up much faster than expected.

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

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

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

Pro athletes, how they go through the world is so elevated. The bubble they're in is one of entitlement. And that starts young. By the time they're in college, they've had it a lot of their life.

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

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

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

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

Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.

People will always have awful things to say because there's a sense of entitlement and safety behind the screen, but trust me, you don't need to be that angry.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

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

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

We should be reforming our entitlement programs to empower people.

I've loosened up over the years about materials. I started off working for Matthew Barney, and that's what his mentality is. Even while we were making pieces, like a mold, the mold would make sense conceptually with the piece. That's how deep his symbology goes. I've loosened up over the years because I very much had that mentality.

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

Such is the sense of entitlement of Boris Johnson and his establishment class - they believe they can break the law without the consequences meeting ordinary people.

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

I just have this sense of entitlement that I should be able to feel comfortable at all times, like I could go to bed at any moment in what I'm wearing.

When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.

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

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

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

Entitlement is just the grossest kind of human behavior.

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

Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

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

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