Quotes About Entitlement

It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them, and to whatever they can buy, and fancies himself cock of the walk.

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

What was about this that made us feel we deserved it?

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. Mary

Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself

Why is it that really beautiful people think everyone else in the world exists merely for their amusement?

Why, she had never had to do a thing for herself in all her life. There had always been someone to do things for her, to look after her, shelter and protect her and spoil her. It was incredible that she could be in such a fix. Not a friend, not a neighbor to help her. There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves. And now in this hour of greatest need, there was no one. It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

As for the family home, Tom dropped into the house on Seventeenth almost every day, walking in unannounced as if he still lived there. Even Debby told him she didn't think that was fair to Kay. "I wouldn't blame her for changing the locks," she said. "I own that house," Tom answered. "I can go there anytime I want.

Temos muitos motivos para esperar grande felicidade, mas... precisamos merecê-la.

If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.

I daresay in a way he deserved it, Joseph agreed with reluctance. But which of us can afford what we deserve? I need better, don't you?

The whole idea that he could take what he wanted without affecting anyone was bull****.

The eternal argument over so-called entitlement programs—and, more broadly, over liberal and conservative thought—will never be resolved because each side represents an ancient and absolutely essential component of our evolutionary past.

It's also very annoying when you've made a fuss over some children who have come on a passing visit, and gone out of your way to give them things they'll like, and now they've come to expect this treatment and start constantly turning up and running around knocking things over.

You're cute and smart, and you've gotten everything you've ever asked for, and that makes you lazy and dangerous." "Wow

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.

You think because you are born of light that you're somehow better and kinder than those who aren't, but you're not. It merely makes you feel entitled in your wrongful actions against others. But, you're no better than my mother. If anything you're worse because you think your viciousness is justified...

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

We have white people problems in America. You know what that is? That's when your life is amazing, so you just make stuff up to get worried about.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

The Thatcherite emphasis on hard work and self-reliance sat alongside a belief that compassion should be a private virtue rather than a social practice. These are attitudes very different from the greedy individualism and sense of personal entitlement characteristic of much of the finance sector today.