Quotes About Entitlement

I swear to you, although it defies logic, that at least one cat always knows when it's Saturday morning and she's entitled to tuna.

Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that modify privilege. Our people have had to work, scrape for privilege, gobble it down when those who would snatch it away weren't looking. Keep a close watch.

Let them eat cake.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

There is no such thing as a free lunch

Everyone is entitled to their own incorrect opinion.

They feel that fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

In a world of Communist drabness and deprivation, I lived in luxury. I never washed my own clothes. I never ironed. I never cooked. I never even had to clean my room. Everything was done for me. All that was asked of me was to study and be the best.

Men always imagined they were undemanding and easy-going; but it soon turned out that the going was only easy if it went their way.

When we are born into this world, the world revolves around us. We're spoon-fed on the front end and diaper-changed on the back end. It's as if the entire world exists to meet our every need. And that's fine if you are a two-month-old baby. If you're twenty-two, it's a problem! Newsflash:

Now we've got an entire generation of fucked-up narcissists 'cause their mamas told them they're special.

when they fail at sports or school or life, it's not because they didn't work hard enough or they're just not smart enough or good enough. No, they're special, so it's got to be someone else's fault. They didn't fail. Someone made them fail.

Your client is that common animal, the Classic Narcissist. He doesn't care if he's making your life miserable, cutting into your profit margin, or getting you in trouble with the boss. He wants what he wants—and he wants it now, now, now.

Those who have been coddled often develop a form of crazy in which they tell themselves, "Someone will do things for me." Consequently, they feel entitled to success and happiness without having to earn it.

There's no such thing as a free lunch." Consciously or unconsciously, nearly everyone keeps score of favors and gestures, and everyone is sensitive to being shortchanged.

People who were coddled often are needy or manipulative or become highly emotional when they're expected to do something they don't want to do.

Further, there are structures of domination, again with histories and social patterns that limit many while entitling others in unfair ways (white supremacism, gender and sexual injustice, class exploitation, nationalisms, et al.). As

We've become an immoral people demanding that Congress forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another. Deficits and runaway national debt are merely symptoms of that real problem.