OT: The entitlement mentality produces petulant insistence on an ever-higher ratio of rights to responsibilities...George F. Will
"pet·u·lant adj.
Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
Contemptuous in speech or behavior.
syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, testy, tetchy...On display every day in the USA and here as well....
A person's fate is their own temper.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Author: Chuck Norris
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Author: William Penn
Amen.