Entitlement quotes
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If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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.
-- Ben Bernanke -
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
-- Bill Keller -
I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.
-- Curtis Jackson -
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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.
-- Donny Osmond -
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.
-- Fred Upton -
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.
-- George Eliot -
Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.
-- Guy Kawasaki -
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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.
-- Ivanka Trump -
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
-- J. J. Abrams -
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
-- James Earl Jones -
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
-- James Stockdale -
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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.
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick -
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
-- Jesse Helms -
It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.
-- Jon Kyl -
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.
-- Malcolm Turnbull -
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Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.
-- Marjorie Hillis -
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
-- Neil Strauss -
Thankfulness eradicates entitlement.
-- Perry Noble -
An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.
-- Pete Wilson -
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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.
-- Robert Nozick -
Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.
-- Steven Furtick -
The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.
-- Tiffanie DeBartolo -
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.
-- Tim Gunn -
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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
-- Tullian Tchividjian -
Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.
-- William Vickrey -
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.
-- Kellyanne Conway -
Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change.
-- Anita Sarkeesian -
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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.
-- Mona Charen -
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.
-- Peter Blair Henry -
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
-- Sarah Churchwell -
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.
-- Jeffrey St. Clair -
