Quotes About Entitlement

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

Why can't science work on making women more entitled in general? Or at least get us to listen to those L'Oreal ads that tell us how we're worth it?

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

If you're getting way too much than perhaps what you deserve, there's no insecurity. It comes up when you feel 'I expect and deserve much more but I'm not getting it.'

CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

There is a basic state pension to which we are all entitled at a certain age, but on top of that we encourage everyone who can to save privately so that they have a more comfortable old age.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

That's why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn't want money because money was power; she wanted it because she'd been poor, and money cures poverty. [...] But beauty is like money from God. And Mom has always been beautiful.

I'm sorry. I forgot this is Maddie's world of sex and the rest of us star in it." She punctuated each word, poking her finger in his chest. "And you should be grateful.

O say can you see him as I see him now, as if he had no one to answer to, he so prepared to devour and excrete the hopes he'd been handed on a platter, the spoon in his mouth, he could eat what he had not earned, he could do it in his sleep.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

The leverage we gained by relying on America's sense of fallenness came at the price of taking on, and then living with, an identity of grievance and entitlement.

One of the delights of Marxian-tinged ideas for the young is the unearned sense of superiority they grant.)

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

Perhaps he owed her an apology. But he did not want to apologize. For she represented all that had always most irritated him about the ladies who had crossed his path down the years. The entitlement. The assumption of superiority and power

It is most degrading. And a marquess, no less, Bridget. He could not even be a simple mister or perhaps a baronet. Oh, no, he has to be a marquess.

But in every way, the shared metaphors we use of female access to power - 'knocking on the door', 'storming the citadel', 'smashing the glass ceiling', or just giving them a 'leg up' - underline female exteriority. Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.

Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.

Their bottomless cool—their cynical postures grown from privilege they were ungrateful for—could make me hate them. Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and think they hit a home run.

Putin realized that he now bore responsibility for the entire crumbling edifice of a former superpower. He was no longer entitled to seethe at the people who had destroyed Soviet military might and imperial pride: by dint of becoming president, to a great number of his compatriots he had now become one of those people.

We're dealing with an entire generation of people who are absolutely committed to taking zero responsibility for their lives. Everything is somebody else's fault. Classic victim mentality. Don't worry, we'll clean up the mess for you. We'll pick up the check. We'll tip the waiter. You hear it day in and day out from the—

But when we live, we believe that we have a right to everything in the universe - that everything is ours to touch.

What I described last," said Francisco, "is any man who proclaims his right to a single penny of another man's effort.

the usual looters' slogan of 'public welfare