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Quotes About Entitlement

The customer is always right, Brook Lynn often said. And Jessie Kay agreed...unless the customer was a douche bag, and then he was just a douche bag.
~ Gena Showalter
I don't have to worry about the money at all, really. My dad left me with this trust fund. I can sit home and watch the viewscreen and drink vodka martinis, or go out and play hovertennis. It's terrific, what a life.
~ Gene Steinberg
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
~ Gene Wolfe
Those who are entitled to it get it sooner or later.
~ George Ade
For we have a young lord and a middle-aged baronet—a shocking pair, who should not be allowed to live; but for family influence they would be doing their twenty years' penal servitude in jail, instead of living comfortably sequestered here. Like Ouida's high-born heroes, they "stick to their order," and do not mingle with the rest of us. They ignore us so completely that we cannot help looking up to them in spite of their vices—just as we should do outside.
~ George du Maurier
Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.
~ George F. Will
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
~ George Foreman
The idea that emerged from both the New Deal and World War II was that a state managed by experts dedicated to solutions without an ideology would do for the country what it did for the war: it would breed success. But of course, this became a principle, the principle became a belief, and the belief became an ideology. The ideology created a class who felt entitled to govern and who were believed to be suitable to govern. It
~ George Friedman
Being a blueblood isn't just knowing the rules. It's knowing the precisely correct thing to do in every situation, then doing it with unshakable entitlement.
~ Ilona Andrews
from a blueblood noble house. Only the blueblood man was allowed to enter. He sat in their kitchen, an older grizzled warrior with a sword on his waist, and laid it all out. Only bluebloods
~ Ilona Andrews
If I closed my eyes, I could almost convince myself it was Dad grilling outside rather than some werewolf with entitlement issues.
~ Ilona Andrews
The young are self-satisfied really and utterly ruthless.
~ Iris Murdoch
What had come from that? All this? Surely not? Life had to be more than a series of unsolvable mysteries. Surely we were entitled to some fuckin answers.
~ Irvine Welsh
the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.
~ Isaac Asimov
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
~ Carl Paladino
The Trumps have spent exactly zero percent of their lives caring about anyone other than themselves.
~ Joy Reid
There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.
~ Sharmila Tagore
Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass. They quote the Bible as the reference that 'God gave them the land.' The size of the alleged God-given land has never been determined and Israel's borders still remain fuzzy.
~ Lee Whitnum
There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles. (On aristocracy)
~ David Lloyd George
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.
~ Dean Acheson
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
~ J. K. Galbraith
Every dog is entitled to one bite.
~ Anonymous
Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.
~ Cecil Rhodes
Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.
~ Polish Proverb