Quotes about Entitlement

I drive through the streets and I care not a damn, The people they stare, and they ask who I am; And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

When a person says, "What I believe is just as valid as anything you or anyone else believes," recognize the statement for what it is: a declaration that is not only childish and untrue but also easily refuted. Mature people understand that while they are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts.

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

When we have every right (after all it's "our church"), when we have always done it that way (no reason to change if we like it), and when we are in prominent positions (we have earned it), we can easily make it about us.

Even though most people coming to a church for the first time cannot articulate this verse, they are probably thinking something similar to what James and John said to Jesus, "Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. 'Teacher, ' they said, 'we want you to do for us whatever we ask'" (Mark 10:35 NIV, emphasis added). Each week people show up telling the church, many times, "We want you to do for us whatever we ask".

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?