Pressure From Society Quotes

#1. Because of pressure from society, many a man has married a woman with whom he isn't compatible; she likes fairy tales, whereas he likes hairy males.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#2. We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.

Adele Parks

#3. But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

Kim Dae-jung

#4. Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Edward Abbey

#5. A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

Simone Weil

#6. Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody's is. Embrace that you have things you can't control. We all have a list of them.

Dan Pearce

#7. To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.

Robert Graves

#8. In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.

Thalia

#9. Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.

Criss Jami

#10. If you start having a society where people are policing their own thoughts, now we're back in Salem, Massachusetts, where literally, they didn't do anything for fun, and then that pressure built up and they all went nuts.

Mary Katharine Ham

#11. The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

John Lennon

#12. 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

#13. Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#14. There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

Gene Sharp

#15. A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great many secret emotions: "Yes, a woman must be pretty if she is to please the men. A man is much better off. As long as he has five straight limbs, he needs no more!"

Sigmund Freud

#16. Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

Agyness Deyn

#17. Disconnect from society's pressure to conform. Do things your own way.

Fennel Hudson

#18. Some Aspergirls are happy alone and start to wonder if there's something wrong with them when society puts pressure on and asks "Aren't you lonely?" It's nobody's business what you do, and if you are happy being alone, you are not flawed, you are lucky.

Rudy Simone

#19. As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

Cal Thomas

#20. Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#21. Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

Norm Coleman

#22. The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.

Chelsea Hobbs

#23. To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

Richard J. Foster

#24. For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.

Amber Tamblyn

#25. If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.

Natalie De Clare

#26. I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today's society, there's so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can't you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?

Nicky Wire

#27. I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.

Donald Miller

#28. Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.

Mark Batterson

#29. Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

Thomas Hughes

#30. People who don't quite fit society, they are often kind of either under an awful lot of pressure or otherwise not acceptable to the mainstream and that tells us a lot about who we are. The people that don't fit are a great way of reflecting on all of us.

Lenny Abrahamson

#31. Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

Doris Lessing

#32. There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

John Boorman

#33. Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Evita Ochel

#34. It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

Richard Carlson

#35. I remember I once told him: 'Women's minds are so petty, so crooked!' 'Like the feet of Chinese women,' he replied. 'Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? They are but pawns of the fate which gambles with them. What responsibility have they of their own?

Rabindranath Tagore

#36. Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

Seneca The Younger

#37. The culture were live in ripples through our daily lives, sending messages about what is considered "normal" and healthy by society.

Lee Harrington