Quotes About Entitlement

We are entitled to our anger in response to this oppression: our anger is a message to ourselves that we need to get active and change something in order to survive.

The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny.

Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas

When you do for other people (Fran's daddy said once upon a time when he was drunk, before he got religion) things that they could do for themselves, but they pay you to do it instead, you both will get used to it.

Expect nothing, and by Christ, you're entitled to even less.

the Germans have got to be stopped. They think they're entitled to rule the world!" Da said: "We're British. Our empire holds sway over more than four hundred million people. Hardly any of them are entitled to vote. They have no control over their own countries. Ask the average British man why, and he'll say it's our destiny to govern inferior peoples.

Children who had inherited money, or a warehouse full of cloth or corn, were sometimes adopted by unscrupulous neighbors greedy to get their hands on the legacy. The prospect of something for nothing brought out the worst in people..

hombres de poder jamás muestran gratitud. Démosles lo que les demos, lo aceptan como un derecho.

O s? înveÈ›i în timp c? oamenii puternici nu dau niciodat? dovad? de recunoÈ™tin??. Orice-ar primi consider? c? li se cuvine.

Nosotros pertenecemos a la nobleza —dijo su padre—. No tenemos por qué atender a las necesidades de unos simples mercaderes.

Pero entonces siempre hay una excusa para que la élite tenga sus privilegios especiales.

By Saturday evening Duke Henri was in a tantrum, possessed by the rage of a young man who finds that the world does not work in the way he confidently expected.

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

They resented the patronage they depended upon.

Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things.

We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.

Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. Fewer than two people in ten said yes when asked, Are you a very important person? Today, more than six in ten say yes. Where we once thought ourselves collectively strong, we now regard ourselves as individually entitled.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the 'human rights', does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence - self-preservation - it may even be deemed self-indulgent.