Quotes About Entitlement

I think something about high school students being snobby about how much they have or don't have is particularly absurd because it's not theirs. It's their parents'. So to feel quite good about yourself because you've got the fancy house and car doesn't make any sense - you didn't earn any of that.

I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.

In our families, we are finding that abandoning that sense of masculine entitlement actually enables us to live happier lives.

I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours.

A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his dog and his pigeons.

behaving as if his actions didn't need defending. Typical rich kid, typical pampered little tycoon. None of their actions ever needed defending, did they?

A sense of entitlement could be getting in the way of God blessing you.

How can you ask for something you don't think you deserve?

psychopaths have a narcissistic and grossly inflated view of their self-worth and importance, a truly astonishing egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and see themselves as the centre of the universe, as superior beings who are justified in living according to their own rules.

Deserves' is an impossible thing to decide. No one deserves anything. Thank God we don't get what we deserve.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don't pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention.

People expected something for nothing, that's why they did nothing so beautifully these days.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

It was always the A booth. It was always the front seat of the roller coaster. It was never "Let's not get the bottle of Cristal.

Christianity, we might say, is driving around with a loaded gun in its glove compartment, and that loaded gun is its violent image of God. It's driving around with a license to kill, and that license is its Bible, read uncritically. Along with its loaded gun and license to kill, it's driving around with a sense of entitlement derived from a set of beliefs with a long, ugly, and largely unacknowledged history.

We get along fine. In return for food and shelter, they give me unconditional indifference.

Desde los inicios de la civilización, en las sociedades ha habido clases privilegiadas. Unos grupos oprimen a otros y procuran mantener estas jerarquías de poder. Los hijos de los privilegiados crecen confiando en que, sin ningún esfuerzo particular por su parte, mantendrán su posición privilegiada.

Her boldness only served to remind him that he had strayed into a world of masculine privilege even greater than the one he had left behind in England all those years ago. Here a man's word literally was law, and women were considered little more than pretty playthings to be used and then discarded when a man's attention wandered to a more enticing pleasure.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

What good's a god who gives you everything you want?