Social pressure Quotes

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

— Andrew Lansley

“When there’s no social pressure behind it, respectful behavior becomes a decision, an individual choice.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

— Jimmy Wales

“Under social pressure, most of us would simply rather be wrong than alone.”

— Anonymous

“It was cool in the terminal, but I felt the heat of social pressure.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

— Martha Beck

“Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?”

— Michael Thomas Ford

“Fashion is one of the greatest forms of manipulation.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure.…

— Rachel Simon

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

“Physical symptoms, emotions, social pressure, conditioned thinking, lack of awareness, and other factors influence behaviors. To lose weight, you need to target…

— Mayo Clinic

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their…

— Mary Pipher

I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them…

— Ron Paul

“A systematic pattern on weekends appears: early types become sleep deprived on free days as a consequence of the social pressure exerted…

— Till Roenneberg

“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about…

— Robert Graves

High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.

— Jenna Wortham

Smaller companies are often more homogenous. Don't simply increase your diversity because of the social pressure to do so. Instead, realize that…

— David Livermore

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

If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed…

— Benjamin Carson

“Step 1: Mold Their Perception Step 2: Elicit Congruent Attitudes Step 3: Trigger Social Pressure Step 4: Habituate Your Message Step 5:…

— Nick Kolenda

As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as…

— Philip Zimbardo

“heeping (noun): a state of mindlessly following others when in fact you know the truth and the right actions you must take,…

— Dragos Bratasanu

“And yet the standards of Christ and His Church have not moved. As He said, 'The truth abideth forever and ever.' When…

— Robert D. Hales

People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today…

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by…

— C. Sommerville

“In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it,…

— Andrew Tobias

“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“It’s messing people up, this social pressure to “find your passion” and “know what it is you want to do”. It’s perfectly…

— Sally Coulter

In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist.…

— Abraham Kaplan

“Skinnerian conditioning, crossed with social pressure, is now an ever-present invisible hand that tries to manipulate all of your actions on the…

— Charles Seife

“The Kony campaign us an example of how powerful 'slacktivisim' can be, and demonstrates that, with enough worldwide awareness and social pressure,…

— Charlie Caruso

“Teach him to call it ‘real-life and don’t let him ask what he means by ‘real’. (...) Never having been human (...)…

— Clive Staples Lewis

“ [When asked about the dangers of Internet trolls being able to say whatever they want because of false profiles] What interests…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all…

— Liezi

“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of…

— Thomas Ligotti

“In one conspicuous case, that of royalty, the State does already select the parents on purely political grounds; and in the peerage,…

— George Bernard Shaw

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“It's the social pressure which makes us to crave for porn.”

— Deyth Banger

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and…

— James Hillman

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends…

— Keith Henson