Social Pressure Quotes

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  When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

  Peter Marshall

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

  Brendon Burchard

  Live Life, Responsibility, Desire

  Brendon Burchard (2014). “The Motivation Manifesto”, p.27, Hay House, Inc

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• The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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

  Martha Beck

  Self, Knows, True Nature

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

  Andrew Lansley

  Powerful, Peer Pressure, Peers

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• 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 from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Aim, Abandon

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.357, Routledge

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• 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 neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suicide, Fall, People

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• 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

  Loyalty, Thinking, People

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• I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

  Jillian Medoff

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and I wasn't raised in our present culture but it has great pressure that as a young person I never had. Material pressure, social pressure, visual pressure, how you look, and I just try to appeal to young people to think for themselves, to be their own person, and to ask questions and also be very attentive to our planet and our environment.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer.

  Caroline Myss

  Cancer, Possibility, Breasts

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way.

  Charles D. Hayes

  Strong, Long, Peer Pressure

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• As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like to believe. Historical inquiry and behavioral science have demonstrated the "banality of evil" -- that is, under certain conditions and social pressures, ordinary people can commit acts that would otherwise be unthinkable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Believe, Character, Evil

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• We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Loyalty, Determination, Regret

  "And Peter Went Out and Wept Bitterly". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 1979.

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• 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

  Girl, Self, Pressure

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.16, Penguin

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• People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well.

  Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

  Growing Up, People, Want

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• 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

  School, Parent, Attention

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• It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Feminism, Kind

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• 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 living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Spiritual, Epic, Class

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title

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• The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Drama, Loss, Suffering

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Self, Views, Voice

  Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, August 9, 2012.

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• 'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Struggle, Prom, Bunch

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Boys, Law, Giving

  Abraham Kaplan (2017). “The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science”, p.56, Routledge

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• 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 activities.

  Ron Paul

  Missing, Speak, Closets

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• All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.

  Arthur Koestler

  Art, Philosophy, Past

  "The Sleepwalkeers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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