Quotes About Entitlement

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

think people like her—like Pandora and Young and Redford—are incredibly arrogant. They've got money, looks, a certain amount of power and prestige. It makes them feel above the law.

What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?

Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.

Lord, you didn't give me any money, but you gave me the right to complain

The two pillars of feminism are narcissism and entitlement.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

If I'm a guy reading a newspaper, and I hear this actor who I know gets great seats at basketball games, and he's complaining about being typecast, I think, 'Hey man, count your blessings.'

I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

People who I've encountered who have had more given to them, they tend to be more disappointed and unable to carry on when something doesn't go their way, and that's not my parents.

It is actually unbelievable that somebody would be deprived of his livelihood for expressing an opinion that he's entitled to.

I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents and grandparents. We are essentially a rather frivolous generation. The Blair government was my generation's shot at power. It had some good things, but it had some flaws.

I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics.

What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Divine support was not an entitlement; Muslims had to earn the favor of Allah by behaving as commanded and submitting to His will.

If you're not rich, you're a lesser being who shouldn't have the gall to expect a living wage from the decent people who are.

Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding cats. It was herding white people, earth's only species with a greater sense of entitlement than a cat.