Quotes About Entitlement

if only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.

An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.

all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

There are no free lunches on welfare.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

We need, in other words, to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them.

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

He'll be given everything he's entitled to under the Geneva Convention. We don't want to be accused of doing to him what they did to you.

Your entitlement is to the deed alone, never to its results. Do not make the results of an action your motive. Do not be attached to inaction. Having renounced rewards resulting from actions, wise men endowed with discrimination are freed from the bondage of birth and go to the Regions of Eternal Happiness.'89