Quotes About Entitlement

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

No man must think that the world was made for him.

Rights do not pertain to results, but only to chances. They

unless restrained by checks and guarantees. There is an insolence of wealth, as there is an insolence of rank. A plutocracy might be even far worse than an aristocracy. Aristocrats

If we pull down those who are most fortunate and successful, shall we not by that very act defeat our own object? Those

Remember, the surest way to lose your rights is to take them for granted.

For thousands of years, violent men have been able to tell their victims that those victims owe them something. If nothing else, they "owe them their lives" (a telling phrase) because they haven't been killed.

In most wealthy countries, the current crop of people in their twenties represents the first generation in more than a century that can, on the whole, expect opportunities and living standards substantially worse than those enjoyed by their parents. Yet at the same time, they are lectured relentlessly from both left and right on their sense of entitlement for feeling they might deserve anything else. This makes it especially difficult for younger people to complain about meaningless employment.

Power makes you lazy. Insofar as our earlier theoretical discussion of structural violence revealed anything, it was this: that while those in situations of power and privilege often feel it as a terrible burden of responsibility, in most ways, most of the time, power is all about what you don't have to worry about, don't have to know about, and don't have to do.

The burden of rights-scolding falls above all on the younger generations. In most wealthy countries, the current crop of people in their twenties represents the first generation in more than a century that can, on the whole, expect opportunities and living standards substantially worse than those enjoyed by their parents. Yet at the same time, they are lectured relentlessly from both left and right on their sense of entitlement for feeling they might deserve anything else.

one man's right is simply another's obligation.

Yra tokia istorija apie žmog?, kuris buvo blogai aptarnautas ir pasak? pardav?jui, kas klientas tur?t? b?ti karalius. Klerkas n? nemirktel?j?s atsak?: Monsieur, le roi est mort ("Pone, karalius mir?s").

Some would say you're abusing my generosity." "Impertinent bastards.

When you're reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled.

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.