Quotes About Entitlement

There are a lot of people who were born into immense privilege who pretend that they weren't.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.

Life at the top may be privileged, but it is not simple.

I get to live a privileged existence.

Looking back on it, when I was eight or nine, of course I did see myself on TV, so in a way, I was privileged.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and you can't stop anyone from expressing their thoughts.

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

When you're one of ten, you learn quickly you're not entitled to anything but the necessities, hand-me-downs, and cars with 157,000 miles on them and the possibility of exploding gas tanks.

Eldar never had the discipline her father had, nor did he appreciate hard work. He quit too easily. He wanted things handed to him, and he usually got them.

She believed in a just return for every effort.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.

Well, that's the upper classes for you," said Strike. "By all means throttle their kids, but don't touch their horses.

I don't need to know her. I know her type. Rich girls spending their ugly husbands' money. They come to my shows. They want to be my friend. Gimme an honest hooker any day.

He might have derived a much needed ego-boost from her unabashed pursuit of him, were it not for the fact that he found her combination of entitlement and neediness thoroughly unattractive.

narcissistic personality disorder. These people really feel that they are the center of the universe (although they aren't centered themselves) and that others exist to serve them. Instead of mirroring others, they insatiably seek mirroring from them. Instead of seeing others, they seek to be seen by them.