Entitlement Quotes - Page 3

• In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Witty, Party, Men

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• There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There's no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation

  Margaret Thatcher

  Responsibility, Men, Effort

  "Thatcher funeral address prompts Tory praise for bishop of London" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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• As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

  Charlie Daniels

  Government, Doors, California

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• 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.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Rights, People

  "The Liberty Manifesto". P. J. O'Rourke 's Speech for the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., May 6, 1993.

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• There is an entitlement that is starting to emerge that I think is unhealthy for people and unhealthy for a country. ... I think the only thing that can be 'below you' is to not have a job.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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• When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

  Marco Rubio

  Cutting, Saving, Path

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  Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Fall, Feelings, Life Is

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

  Niger Innis

  Rights, America, Understanding

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• If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.

  Fred Thompson

  Class, Government, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.

  George Will

  Self, Names, America

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• Black pride. Gay pride. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant pride. All of these things, you know, they're polarized, aren't they? The red and blue states. Christians, that's the most insidious aspect of it, giving into this great Christian image of America. That's the most frightening thing of all. Whereas in the past they're trying to find things that unite us, to minimize the differences. Whereas today there's this belief in empowerment and entitlement by maximizing differences. I'm not so sure that that's healthy.

  Robert Towne

  Christian, Pride, Gay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty. Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams. Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Dream, Mean, Blessing

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• 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.

  Michael Foley

  Rights, Feelings, Culture

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Growth, Becoming, Infinite

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• Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

  Paul Ryan

  Obamacare, Grandparent, President

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

  George Will

  War, Men, Age

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• Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids.

  Mary Blakely

  Husband, Divorce, Kids

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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

  Pete Wilson

  Gratitude, Attitude, Related

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• ...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Drawing, Vision

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• Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

  Annabel Park

  Democracy, Problem, Wealth

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• What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Thankfulness, Privilege

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• For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of our entire economy - in the bank and earning interest right now. But it doesn't. And while many believe that Social Security represents our greatest entitlement problem, Medicare is six times larger in terms of unfunded obligations.

  John C. Goodman

  Believe, Government, Should Have

  "A Prescription for American Health Care". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. March 2009.

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

  Brad Stevens

  Trust, Basketball, Nba

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• White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, People, Choices

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• 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.

  Kevin McKenzie

  Mean, Ballet, Technique

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