Pressure to Fit In Quotes

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.

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

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

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

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

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

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

It makes us feel normal when people think we're being too arty or whatever.

In times of social tension we pull back on expression, and we always end up believing that it was the wrong thing to do.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.

I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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

In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.