Quotes About Entitlement

We've always been privileged, you see. Privilege just means 'private law.' That's exactly what it means.

the differences between what we have to do to get something to happen and what everyone else in our organization has to do. Which of these are necessary or unavoidable, and which of them do we retain because we think we are better than others, more vital, and deserve special treatment?

I can be on the lookout for signs of the various common boxes, for example—ways I'm feeling better-than, or entitled, or worse-than, or anxious to be seen-as. "Then when I feel stuck in the box and desire to get out, I can find an out-of-the-box place—some place within me that is unencumbered by these boxes.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

As a second-time director you don't want to be working with someone who's a star that wants you to get down and kiss their feet.

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

I've always been labeled... people think things are handed to me.

Why did criminals have so many rights? Why were they entitled to respect and understanding? Had they not acted so unlawfully that these rights should be stripped from them?

I could so easily never have learned things that would stay with me now until I died: that I was complete as I was, with all my flaws and all my strengths. That I took up space in the world, and that I was entitled to that space.

I could so easily never have learned things that would stay with me now until I died; that I was complete as I was, with all my flaws and all my strenghts. That I took up space in the world, and that I was entitled to that space.

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of materials will collect more money...than will the people who will supply all the materials and do all the work.56

Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?

A.J. apologizes but he is not sorry. Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?

Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

No right exists without its complementary obligation.

It was borrowed time anyway—the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls.

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?

approached as millions before me had approached a famous presence in a public place, with outward humility masking the entitlement that genuine admiration confers.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.

A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.