Quotes About Entitlement

Millennials can be very hardworking, but it's easier to tell the story of the ones who are entitled.

All those articles that scold Millennials for their supposed entitlement? Forget them. Millennials are great employees.

It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it.

Of course, no one can have a right to such material things unless someone else can be compelled to pay for them.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Everybody out on the sidewalk is a pedestrian Mercedes, wallowing in entitlement—colliding, snarling, shoving ahead without even the hollow-to-begin-with local euphemism "Excuse me.

Explanations did not, as far as he could tell, appear to be anything dogs either sought or even were entitled to. Especially dogs who spent as much time as Pugnax did up here, in the sky, far above the inexhaustible complex of odors to be found on the surface of the planet below.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

Slippery use of the word "privilege" is part of a vogue of calling achievements "privileges"—a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading a toxic confusion in many other aspects of life.

The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

In short, the anointed are helped to make yet another group feel like victims and to regard the anointed as their rescuers.

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.

Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing—it was here first.

nonconsequentialists often say here is that people have a duty to be just, but that they are also entitled to have and to pursue their own concept of a good life. It is this self-chosen sense of the good, which includes religion and culture, that we must respect even if we disagree or believe that ours is superior.

You don't deserve it, he said aloud. Don't ever begin to think that you do.

there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences.

What we do not earn ourselves," he said, "is never truly ours.

Children pick up on themes—love, anger; more basically, warmth, cold. Tell yourself it's the details that scar children for life and you avoid the inconvenient truth that it is in fact the ongoing themes. Control. Disappointment. Entitlement. Narcissism. Deprivation. Frustration. Sorrow.

The rules only applied to people who couldn't afford different rules.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

The people of the United States are entitled to assume that their President is telling the truth. The pattern of misrepresentation and half-truths that emerges from our investigation reveals a presidential policy cynically based on the premise that the truth itself is negotiable.