Quotes About Entitlement

We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.

Collectively, they are the indolent children of inherited wealth, removed by generations from those who last made the fortune—the Greatest Generation—and too self-absorbed and selfish to consider what they in turn might leave for the next generations.

Both men and women are inculcated with social beliefs that help ensnare them in the polka. Most destructive is the belief that a healthy, mature adult is not supposed to need emotional connection and so is not entitled to this kind of caring.

Just being a good person doesn't necessarily entitle you to a good life.

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

I wanted everything and thought it would be given to me if I asked for it. I think I was too weak to take any kind of hardship.

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.

Vain people can't bear to be crossed. They are the center of their world, and if circumstances don't allow the world to meet their needs, then the circumstances need to be changed. Their actions appear proportionate to them because any situation where their needs aren't being met is an affront.

Los jóvenes de hoy en día no sois conscientes de los privilegios que tenéis, os parece natural tener de todo… por eso no apreciáis nada

Some things were beyond her reach. In her sheltered life, she'd never realized that until now. She hadn't expected the world to be handed to her upon a golden platter, but she'd always assumed that if she worked hard enough for something, treated everyone the way she would like to be treated, then she would be rewarded.

If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably feel entitled to their wealth and will have the means to defend their interest. That's already gone far enough. We shouldn't let it become more extreme.

Anytime anyone complains about wrestling, it's so annoying to me because people come off as these entitled infants. Because in reality, wrestling hurts so bad. And then we're hurting ourselves to entertain the masses.

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

How much self-awareness does a life of privilege and entitlement afford the entitled? If you are birthed into a particular paradigm that serves you, what would compel you to look outside?

You put us through all that for a book? Why' 'Well number one: He had it and it's mine. And number two: It's mine and he had it.

No woman is owed economic support, children, respect or love. The woman who accepts and lives by correct principles thereby earns the right to make certain demands upon her husband; being female entitles her to nothing.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

The more highly we think of ourselves, the sorrier we feel for ourselves when we do not get what we know we deserve.

This is the perfect-circle of self-pity and self-love: we deserve to be loved but we are hated because we are so wonderful.

Bloody men. Think they've a God-given right to be better off than women. Work, marriage, divorce, the lot. They do less, get paid more and act like they own the place.

Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

No, not like me. He's no better than the other Fellmottes. Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.

Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.