“We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain.… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
I read a lot on self-esteem issues, and a mother has more impact on the self-esteem of her daughter than peer pressure… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
Is a temporary 'reputation' really worth losing all of your hopes and dreams? The biggest downfall to people's lives today is peer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and… — Jabari Parker Copy Share Image
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive… — Walt Mueller Copy Share Image
“Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“I will no longer let the fear of vicious comments or replies stop me from speaking what I believe to be right.… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing… — Madisen Beaty Copy Share Image
I just feel like, with growing up and having peer pressure and what society wants you to be and what you think… — Storm Reid Copy Share Image
Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation.… — Charles D. Hayes Copy Share Image
“The three social influences that we have emphasized—information, peer pressure, and priming—can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration… — Jerry Nachman Copy Share Image
“It’s not the word that’s important, it’s the right to say any word you want to and to form any sentence you… — Arun D. Ellis Copy Share Image
“I was aware that he was laughing at me, but I told myself I didn't care what other people thought and would… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
“When trust is extended, it breeds responsibility in return. Emulation and peer pressure regulates the system better than hierarchy ever could.” — Frederic Laloux Copy Share Image
Straight edge kids need to stop bitchin and just give into peer pressure. Don't diss what you've never tried. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to think I'd never get married or have kids. Peer pressure suggested I might be a lone wolf forever. I've… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“...[W]hy should we pay so much attention to what 'most people' think? The really reasonable people, who have more claim to be… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
“When you are good person and you choose to do bad things, because you see other people doing them. It always ends… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure.… — Doug Flutie Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“In some cases, however, a person will try to avoid taking responsibility by trying to avoid making conscious choices altogether. Perhaps she… — K.A. Linde Copy Share Image
My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
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