Eddie Alvarez Quotes

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.