#entitle

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#area #attend #child #district #each

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#freedom #me #something #you

It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don't think of ourselves as citizens in the old sense of being small parts of something larger and infinitely more important to which we have serious responsibilities. We do still think of ourselves as citizens in the sense of being beneficiaries--we're actually conscious of our rights as American citizens and the nation's responsibilities to us and ensuring we get our share of the American pie. We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makers of the pie. So who makes the pie? ... Something has happened where we've decided on a personal level that it's all right to abdicate our individual responsibility to the common good and let government worry about the common good while we all go about our individual self-interested business and struggle to gratify our various appetites. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#entitlement #government #responsibility #business

Being in a relationship doesn’t entitle you to anything. You don’t get what you expect, you get what you create. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#entitle #expect #love #relationship #experience

Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: "I love you. I believe in you. I know what you're capable of. So I'm going to make you work. ↗

— Kay Wills Wyma

#entitlement #kids #parenting #work #communication

Beware: It is a quick transition from a nourishing sense of gratitude to a poisonous sense of entitlement. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#entitlement #grateful #gratitude #experience

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. ↗

— Richard Eyre

#conflict #entitlement #kids #ownership #parenting

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. ↗

— James Madison

#government-spending #money

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