Quotes About Entitlement

We've turned into a whining society.

Parents do overindulge their children, giving them a profusion of material things . . . without the stabilizing effects of earning one's way, of making decisions, of sweating hard to attain some kind of goal, young people are grievously handicapped.

Many people ask about Christianity the same [way] they ask about everything else today: "What's in it for me?" In our selfishness, we think of God as we think of everyone else. What can He contribute to us, personally?

Tamaki = "If not spoiled constantly, he'll die" type.

He's [G.H.W. Bush] never had to do a day's work in his life.

Among a large class there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.

It is pretty hard, however, to help a young man who has started wrong. Once he gets the idea that — because he has crammed his head full with mere book knowledge — the world owes him a living, it is hard for him to change.

If you are reading this, you were born in the top one percent of history's population, no question about it. You've experienced luxuries that painfully few people in the history of mankind could have even imagined. Yet instead of appreciating that, instead of doing more to help those beneath us, we attack those who got even luckier for not doing enough.

Never fails. Scratch a guy who always talks about what a winner he is or how he's "self-made" or how he's pulled himself up by the bootstraps, and underneath you'll always find a little boy who had everything handed to him. It was like they needed a blind spot to justify their tremendous luck. Something like: I can't have all of this because of fate or chance—I must be special. "I'm

Alexandra was one of those people who had gone through life at no cost to themselves; had she been obliged to pay any emotional bills during her earthly life, Jean Louise could imagine her stopping at the check-in desk in heaven and demanding a refund.

I'll just come right out and say it, rich people have no imagination. They can't even scratch their own asses without a ruler and a flashlight.

I was beginning to understand what Hiraku Makimura meant about Ame's wearing him down. Ame didn't give anything. She only took. She consumed those around her to sustain herself. And those around her always gave. Her talent was manifested in a powerful gravitational pull. She believed it was her privilege, her right. Harmony and peace. In order for her to have that, she had everyone waiting on her hand and foot.

As with most people who are well raised, well educated, and financially secure, Dr. Tokai only thought of himself.

I'm not going to tell you how to feel about or view perimenopause, menopause, and life after. That's yours to feel. If we're entitled to anything, having reached this stage of life or otherwise found ourselves here, it should be the right to own and contextualize our own experience of this.

Parte de la arrogancia de la juventud (bueno, digo juventud por decir algo)radica en la suposición de que tus padres dejarán todo lo que estén haciendo y te recibirán con los brazos abiertos en cuanto tú decidas aparecer.

What a blessing to be born with such Sloaney arrogance. Perpetua could be the size of a Renault Espace and not give it a thought.

I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

WWE doesn't owe us anything.

Once you become president, you don't even have to stop for red lights. And if it looks like traffic's too bad, you just take a helicopter.

You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.

The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.

It was hard to force people to give up their rights to apartments, and predictably, this radical Utopian ideal failed. But it does illustrate how the concept of social injustice in a communist society works: those who have are exceptions, and they should feel guilty and ashamed - the others are entitled to have, too, because it has been promised to them.