Social Pressure Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school. — Martha Beck
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary… — Alain LeRoy Locke
I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their… — Ron Paul
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. — Mary Pipher
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of… — Aurora Levins Morales
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful. — Beverly Daniel Tatum
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things. — Jimmy Wales
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. — Keith Henson
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a… — Queen Rania of Jordan
Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him… — Emile Durkheim
It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad… — Joan Bauer
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and… — Viktor E. Frankl
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing… — Steven Levitt
Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight… — Alice Dreger
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature. — Martha Beck
If something is inconvenient, even if we believe in it, moral suasion, financial incentives, don't do much to move us but social pressure, that's powerful… — Suman Rai
It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from… — Shalini
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, it's so brutal.… — Erin Daniels

Who Wrote These Social Pressure Quotes

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