Quotes about Entitlement
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You've given aid and they've received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?
- Marcus Aurelius
It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them, and to whatever they can buy, and fancies himself cock of the walk.
- Margaret Atwood
Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself
- Margaret Atwood
Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.
- Steven Furtick
For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
- Dennis Prager
The privileges of a few do not make common law.
- Saint Jerome
This is an empire called "narcissism.
- Scot McKnight
Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Thomas Jefferson