Quotes About Entitlement

attempts to maintain aristocratic entitlement through "mystification and concealment," as an 1835 newspaper put it.

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should to rest on inference.

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem lightly.

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

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

Clients didn't value what they got for free. It was human nature to devalue what came too cheap or easy.

The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Remember the key to life," Serge shouted over the engine. "Always act like you deserve to be here.

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

I don't get to keep the dresses I wear. It is not fair.

Obamacare has driven entitlement spending up much faster than expected.

It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don't get it, you can't get annoyed.