#entitle

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#inexperience #krakauer #mccandless #naivete #youth

I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. "Oh, yes," she purred. "I like this one! Come along, children." "But this isn't yours," I pointed out. "My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine." She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked. The engine began to purr. [No, Sadie. Not like a cat, like an engine.] ↗

— Rick Riordan

#entitlement #cat

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. ↗

— James Madison

#government-spending #charity

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#self-reliance #self-help

Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#pitfalls-of-the-human-race #truth-quotes #wisdom-quotes #empathy

Everyone is entitled to our opinion. ↗

— Tre Cool

#everyone #opinion #our

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#because #easily #entitled #farmers #farming

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#entitled #i #merely #prerequisite #privacy

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown. ↗

— Fanny Brice

#being #clown #does #entitled #expect

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. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#down #entitlement #entitlement programs #got #ideas