Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
My idea of family is not dominated by blood ties. Families are fragile things, and I think it is social pressure and… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
If something is inconvenient, even if we believe in it, moral suasion, financial incentives, don't do much to move us but social… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs.… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the strength of social pressure is one of the greatest forces in the world. The only force that is stronger is… — Victoria Goddard Copy Share Image
Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The human female’s sexual behavior is typically far more malleable than the male’s. Greater erotic plasticity leads most women to experience more… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With… — Alain LeRoy Locke Copy Share Image
The tactics we were able to use in the 1960s, 1970s - let's have a campaign, mobilize everybody and, therefore, social pressure… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder,… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“She was having a violent reaction against beautiful clothes and the slavery they impose on one, her experience being that the instant… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Yet this natural empathy and connection with other animals is not the final word, and it leads to no predetermined outcomes. There… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
I mostly hung out with boys, as girls in high school aren't nice people. There's just so much social pressure, it's just...God,… — Erin Daniels Copy Share Image
I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
“Not being able to be our true self or live authentically ultimately puts us under pressure. Even if you can endure it… — Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai Copy Share Image
The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
When you look at the potential of such a zero-risk products as electronic cigarettes you need to understand what is the readiness… — Andre Calantzopoulos Copy Share Image
“Freedom. You humans do love to prattle on about freedom, and you barely understand the word. How much agency do you think… — Craig Schaefer Copy Share Image
“Do you trust threats, judgment, shame, or social pressure (even in church!) to change people, or do you trust the Holy Spirit… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“To eliminate nonessentials means saying no to someone. Often. It means pushing against social expectations. To do it well takes courage and… — Tommy Brown Copy Share Image
“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love.… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
