Quotes About Entitlement

If love wasn't blind, some people don't deserve anything

The privileged liberal position: "There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor.

Don't you think I'm owed those lives?

Why do law-abiding and productive human beings owe anything to those who neither produce very much nor abide by just laws? What philosophical or economic or spiritual justification is there for owing then anything? ...The question gaped beneath her, but she didn't try to evade it. I don't know. I just know we do.

But I couldn't think it more hateful of them to have taken my fur tippet. Burglars never seem to realize one might feel the cold. How would they like it if I took away their wife's shawl?

I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

Estimating that his merits would never earn him a penny or the position he coveted and felt entitled to, he decided to carve out a career for himself, cultivating a click of like-minded chums with home to exchange privileges, excluding those he envied.

Everyone had helped themselves to something with the exception of Fred, who had helped himself to everything.

The word deserve causes immeasurable pain.

At the end of the day, we all live in our own inner world created by our own archetypes, stories, myths, wounds, sense of entitlement, and curious system of logic, order, and justice.

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft.

We can believe in hierarchy. We can believe the universe was made just for us. Hierarchy and a major sense of entitlement are not insurmountable problems. The problem occurs when we treat those whom we believe lie beneath us as slaves. Religion once sustained human slavery. It was wrong then. When it blindly sanctions the slavery of every nonhuman animal, it is wrong now.

Acting Up: The Atlanta Heiresses.

Cecelia Ahern asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.

A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.