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Quotes About Entitlement

Of course, legends can call out whoever they want and do as they please, but they can't just show up and get handed matches.
~ Dolph Ziggler
Look, I was taught, and I taught my children, if they ever came back from school saying 'Oh, so and so's father's got a helicopter, it's not fair,' I'd say, 'Fair? Whoever said life had to be fair? Is it fair that you live in Kensington Palace? That you've each got a pony? There are an awful lot of kids without a pony, you know.'
~ Princess Michael of Kent
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
~ Eric Liu
If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.
~ Derrick Jensen
Besides being driven around Manhattan by a chauffeur whose salary his father's company paid, in a Cadillac his father's company leased to 'scope out properties,' Donald's job description seems to have included lying about his 'accomplishments' and allegedly refusing to rent apartments to Black people.
~ Mary L. Trump
There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their own. They thought they were their own, but they were essentially gifted this life by their parents. So they were spending money; they were going on trips - I guess, in a way, it is their life, but they didn't earn it.
~ Dan Levy
I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.
~ Bob Newhart
Male heroes are entitled to particular privileges, and why not the women as well?
~ Marjorie Liu
Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.
~ Richard N. Haass
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
~ Indira Gandhi
It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
~ Anne Lamott
We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.
~ Bill Haslam
And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.
~ Ben Quayle
Many people today have grown up believing that they are entitled to a good time, that that's what life is all about. They put their pleasures ahead of their children, then feel guilty and become placating slaves to the children to make up for it.
~ Robert Shaw
Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.
~ Robert Sheckley
You have now learned the valuable lesson, Dee, that law and custom are only there for the common people; they don't apply to exalted persons like me.
~ Robert van Gulik
Didn't it seem like really thin, gorgeous people were always so mean? Where did they get that aura of entitlement? And didn't it seem like people always fawned over them even though they behaved badly? Why was that?
~ Lisa Unger
The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal.
~ Lisa Unger
Never," said Kareen with passion, "ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
This was the age when everyone wanted an empire and felt entitled to one, days of innocence perhaps, before the world realised, it it yet has, that empires were pointless and expensive, and their subject peoples rancorous and ungrateful.
~ Louis de Bernieres
woman who takes cards in a man's game holds the status of a man and is entitled to no more respect.
~ Louis L'Amour
feeling that all women owed him a kind word because one had been cold to him
~ Louisa May Alcott
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
~ Ronald Reagan
Dice que la Dama pertenece a un tipo de personas que ella, Nyneve, conoce muy bien y que aborrece: aquellas que han sufrido un dolor y que por eso se creen justificadas para cometer cualquier tropelía, como si los demás individuos les debieran algo para siempre.
~ Rosa Montero