Quotes About Entitlement

That and rum and tobacco—and being boys, we were not entitled to the rum. 'Rum, bum and baccy.' And that was why 'bum' was included—that, and not buggery, as the landsmen thought.

Maybe losing your soul isn't the right way to describe it," Turtle said. "Maybe it's more like … the more you use your power for bad things, the more you feel like you're entitled to use your power for anything. It makes it harder to go back — only forward into more bad things.

So let me get this straight," she said. "You're telling me nothing about why you're here, but you expect me to bring you into our kingdom and buy you a drink. NightWings really do think highly of themselves, don't they?" "What if I bought you that drink?" he offered.

Pass on the priveleged, piss on the rest.

The real problem for others is when narcissistic features, especially a sense of entitlement and a lack of empathy, shade into antisocial and destructive behaviors. When this happens, the pattern might be described as aggressive or malignant narcissism, which is difficult to distinguish from psychopathy.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously declared; but in modern America a lot of people do believe that they're entitled to their own facts.

A lesson to people who think that, just because they're a little smarter and luckier than ordinary people, they can do as they please.' Lisa

One in four men said women would need some convincing in order for sex to happen; this was not twenty or thirty years ago, mind you: this was 2016. Those perception gaps are a setup not only for assault- out of unexamined entitlement, if not flat-out ill will- but also for boys' subsequent denial of responsibility and, quite possibly, their claims of false accusation.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.

You're mine, Wasp

Maybe if he was the sort of man who could eat someone else's hash browns, who the hotel wanted to impress so much they sent him someone else's breakfast, maybe then he was the sort of man who could get an audience with the King.

Look at us, goddammit, the two of us slingshotted from the back side of the moon, greedily cartwheeling toward everything we are owed.

But property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

Law school was, for the most part, full of overindulged kids looking to become lawyers either to please daddy or to bring home the big paycheck.

their faces arranged in the mildly sullen expressions of consumers who have never once questioned their entitlement to satisfaction or meaning.

college students and alcoholics/addicts are the worst: they deep-down believe they're exempt from the laws of physics and statistics that ironly govern everybody else.

The pound of flesh which I demand of him Is dearly bought; 'tis mine, and I will have it.

The Frogs are getting all they can for nothing, and we are getting nothing for all we can.

Cuando haces una obra de caridad, on en mi caso de solidaridad, te sientes con derecho a ser como eres y tener lo que tienes. Ya pagaste tu impuesto, ¿ajá?

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.

they all believed, without any sort of doubt, that they deserved to be heard, that their words ought to be heard, that the narratives of their faultless lives must be heard. They all had the same unwavering certainty my father had. And I understood that this was the certainty that Bevel wanted on the page.