Quotes About Entitlement

I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.

Damn little gadflies think they can buy the sun out the sky, don't they?" "This particular one could probably afford it," I said grimly. "And the moon too, if he wanted the matched set to use as bookends.

America is a land of opportunity, not entitlement, which is clearly spelled out by our inspired Founding Fathers who wrote the U.S. Constitution.

If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

Envy is self-focused; because it's self-focused, it's entitled; because it's entitled, it's demanding; because it's demanding, it tends to judge the goodness of God by whether he has delivered what you feel entitled to; and because it judges God on that basis, it leads you to question his goodness. Because you question God's goodness, you won't run to him for help. Envy is a spiritual disaster.

Our affluence does not make us selfish; it simply enables us to afford more sophisticated expressions of selfishness.

When you forget mercy and think you're deserving, you find it all too easy not to extend mercy to others.

Envy denies grace. The assumption of envy is that we deserve what another has been given, when, in fact, you and I deserve nothing.

The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?

I am an old man. I am entitled, am I not, to say what I think?—and of course to stray from the point.

Anita, she won't take responsibility for her actions and complains that she's always the "victim.

But I'm telling you, something happens to beautiful people. They think that something extra is owed to them by life, by God, by all the people around them. They think their life has to be better, more dramatic, happier—in color, not black and white.

Conditioned by the position of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear shoes, be educated, travel, and hear Beethoven; while millions did not eat, had no clothes or shoes, neither studied nor traveled, much less listened to Beethoven.

America was founded by rugged individuals who created government to secure their rights and leave them alone. Americans today want government to violate other people's rights, steal their stuff, and give it to them. The home of the free has become the land of the freeloader.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

Rich people are another species. Sort of lost in their own way. It's a good thing they have country clubs and shit because it keeps them kinda corralled up in one place.

So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.