Entitlement Quotes - Page 9

• 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?

  Judith M Bardwick

  Attitude, Grateful, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Each budgets reflect our priorities, reflect our principles, reflect our vision. We believe in balancing the budget. We believe in getting government to live within its means. We believe in pro-growth economic policies, energy exploration, fixing our entitlements before they go bankrupt.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Mean, Priorities

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• I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

  David Brooks

  Block, Cutting, Thinking

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu’s election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Rights, People

  Amartya Sen (2010). “The Idea of Justice”, p.179, Penguin UK

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• So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Perspective, Church, Membership

  Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.39, B&H Publishing Group

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• Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.

  David Richo

  Letting Go, Attachment, Expectations

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

  David Limbaugh

  Running, Winning, Issues

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

  Pete Edochie

  People, Stupidity, Common

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• Thankfulness eradicates entitlement.

  Perry Noble

  Thankfulness

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• There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.

  Rashida Jones

  Technology, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2009.

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• Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

  Bill Maher

  Afterlife, People, Drug

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, White Man, Personality

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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

  Mind, Lists, Appetite

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1982). “Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: Essays”

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

  Curtis Jackson

  Strong, People, Felt

  "No Small Change". Interview With George Wayne, www.vanityfair.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups," which is a repugnant attitude any way one chooses to look at it. I definitely believe in the possibility of happiness, though; it's just something that I think, rightfully, is rare in its genuine form, and that it can't be counterfeited.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Attitude, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, Easy

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.72

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• Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may also believe they deserve to be mistreated. Some will even defend their abuser, citing his or her earnest apologies afterward. But abuse in any form, for any reason, wounds both spouses. It's always sinful, and few things destroy trust in a marriage as quickly. Regardless of childhood pain or marital conflict, mature spouses learn to set limits so anger doesn't become abuse by frequency, degree, or duration.

  Rob Jackson

  Pain, Believe, Apology

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• Tom Hanks is a huge superstar. And people tell me he's a very nice guy, not arrogant, not an entitlement guy. But very quietly, Mr. Hanks has become a left-wing power player in Hollywood.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Nice, Player, Wings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

  Rachel Holmes

  Keys, People, Feminism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

  Moby

  Careers, People, Musician

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.

  Moby

  Musician, Actors, Saving

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• 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

  Phrases, Want, Complication

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.60, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.

  Mark Steyn

  Fall, Two, America

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• Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing it into a class-based entitlement program may at long last bring Americans around to a consideration of the growing inequality that threatens the harmony of our democracy far more than the alarmist cry of 'racial division.'

  Orlando Patterson

  Thinking, Class, Long

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• For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts.

  Kofi Annan

  Powerful, Rights, Luxury

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