Social Acceptance Quotes

• A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Book, Acceptance, Firsts

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, School

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• I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Father, Believe

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

  Jaron Lanier

  Acceptance, People, Volunteer

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• Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

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• Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Acceptance, Loss, Individual

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• Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

  Nir Eyal

  Pain, Acceptance, Rejection

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.41, Penguin

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• I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

  Thomas Merton

  Acceptance, People, Risk

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.6, Sounds True

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• But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Acceptance, Dark

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• I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

  Jess C Scott

  Relationship, Acceptance, Thinking

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Trouble (poetry, contemporary)”, p.59, jessINK

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• Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

  Alexandra Robbins

  Acceptance, Doe, Social

  Alexandra Robbins (2011). “The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

  Mike Ness

  Tattoo, Acceptance, People

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