Quotes About Entitlement

But the better answer is that Hotchkiss has simply fallen into the trap that wealthy people and wealthy institutions and wealthy countries—all Goliaths—too often fall into: the school assumes that the kinds of things that wealth can buy always translate into real-world advantages.

the sense of entitlement [...] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world

Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy

When we talk about the advantages of class, Lareau argues, this is in large part what we mean. Alex Williams is better off than Katie Brindle because he's wealthier and because he goes to a better school, but also because—and perhaps this is even more critical—the sense of entitlement that he has been taught is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world.

Look at how easily Alex interrupts the doctor—I'm not ten. That's entitlement: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn to assert himself with people in positions of authority.

That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him.

The idea of deserving love. And then watching love being given to people who did nothing to deserve it.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

How many times have I been put at the front of the line without even knowing there was a line? How many times have I walked through a door that opened, invisibly and silently, for me, but slammed shut for others? How many lines have I cut in a life of privilege?

At its worst, privilege is blindness, allowing us to blithely go on in our god playing, not even aware of the insults to image bearers that happen under our noses every day.

Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more.

It's very hard to explain—part of me had enough indoctrination to believe I was not a mother. They make that very clear: "You're not a mother. You are too young. You are a bad person. You got pregnant and you aren't married. You are not entitled to this baby. You're gonna give this baby a chance in life." Part of me accepted that wisdom, but then there was the other part of me that had feelings that I wasn't supposed to have. So

El dolor es egoísta. El que sufre se siente único y piensa que el mundo le debe algo

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious to me or Haven or anyone else. We've been very patient with you because we're your family and we love you, but it stops here. I don't care if the wedding is two weeks or two hours away, you were never raised to behave this way.

The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.

So infatuated are they by their own   splendor and magnificence, as to imagine that the whole world was made   only for them.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you . . .

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.