Quotes About Entitlement

Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be.

They resented the patronage they depended upon.

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.

The typical poverty program creates dependency, robs people of dignity, stifles initiative, and can foster a "What have you done for me lately?" sense of entitlement.

Less than I want. More than I deserve.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

We urgently need an open and honest debate with the public about what help and support they will be entitled to when they are older, and what it is reasonable for them to contribute in return.

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

A government subsidized economic recovery, is not an economic recovery - it's an entitlement state.

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

When the rich kids got together, the most we ever did was cross against a red light.

Nobody wants to take a hard look of the entitlement system to see what it is.

You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.

In Bollywood, once an actor becomes a fairly established name, he or she usually starts taking things for granted.

Heck, I feel guilty getting my senior discounts.

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

To them, social programs amount to coddling people—spoiling them.

Therefore, any social or political system in which people get things they don't earn, or are rewarded for lack of self-discipline or for immoral behavior, is simply an immoral system.

I suspect there is nothing a man can be so grateful for as that to which he has the most right. There

A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor -- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature; and, when he has fifty or a hundred others to back him, he will show it.

And that, against this: the king-types who would snatch the apple from your hand and claim to have grown it, even though what they had, had come to them intact, or been gained unfairly (the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others), and who, having seized the apple, would eat it so proudly, they seemed to think that not only had they grown it, but had invented the very idea of fruit, too

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

Indulged almost from the hour of her birth; endowed not only with beauty but with a considerable independence as well; encouraged to think herself a matrimonial prize of the first stare, Tiffany had come to regard every unattached man's homage as her due.