Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
“When there’s no social pressure behind it, respectful behavior becomes a decision, an individual choice.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It was cool in the terminal, but I felt the heat of social pressure.” — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
“Under social pressure, most of us would simply rather be wrong than alone.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?” — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure.… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“Physical symptoms, emotions, social pressure, conditioned thinking, lack of awareness, and other factors influence behaviors. To lose weight, you need to target… — Mayo Clinic Copy Share Image
I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“A systematic pattern on weekends appears: early types become sleep deprived on free days as a consequence of the social pressure exerted… — Till Roenneberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“Step 1: Mold Their Perception Step 2: Elicit Congruent Attitudes Step 3: Trigger Social Pressure Step 4: Habituate Your Message Step 5:… — Nick Kolenda Copy Share Image
As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as… — Philip Zimbardo 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
“heeping (noun): a state of mindlessly following others when in fact you know the truth and the right actions you must take,… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it,… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist.… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Kony campaign us an example of how powerful 'slacktivisim' can be, and demonstrates that, with enough worldwide awareness and social pressure,… — Charlie Caruso Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“ [When asked about the dangers of Internet trolls being able to say whatever they want because of false profiles] What interests… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all… — Liezi Copy Share Image
“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful. — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
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