Entitlement Quotes - Page 2

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

Abraham Lincoln

Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: "I love you. I believe in you. I know what you're capable of. So I'm going to make you work.

Entitlement is such a cancer, because it is void of gratitude.

Adam Kirk Smith

To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye which extrudes, expands, winces and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again. Bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf into them, avid for vision. To achieve vision in this way; this journey into a darkness that is composed of women--a woman--who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward.

Margaret Atwood

Many comedians are very proud of themselves for saying the things others are supposedly afraid to say. They are at the forefront of this culture of entitlement where we get to do anything, think anything, and say anything.

Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Rights’ are ‘privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Entitlement is an expression of conditional love. Nobody is ever entitled to your love. You always have a right to protect your mental, emotional, and physical well-being by removing yourself from toxic people and circumstances.

Janice Anderson

Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us.

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.

Craig D. Lounsbrough