Quotes About Entitlement

Wisdom of the Ages: "Skull and Bones" A secret society of spoiled twits whose apparent purpose in life is littering the landscape with as many as possible.

I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

We've turned into a whining society.

He had all the bushes and trees cut down around his house at Bokatola so that from his porch he could use passersby for target practice. If

When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression.

When all you've ever known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

No whining on the yacht.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

We aren't overwhelmed by anger whenever we are frustrated; only when we first believed ourselves entitled to a particular satisfaction and then did not receive it.

You're not upset.' 'I am.' 'You deserve to be.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.

Beyond the ebb and flow of racial progress lies the still viable and widely accepted (though seldom expressed) belief that America is a white country in which blacks, particularly as a group, are not entitled to the concern, resources, or even empathy that would be extended to similarly situated whites.

If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

He knew the kind of people who said "We'll send our plane" when they invited him for weekends in distant places.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.