Quotes About Cliques

#1. I cannot understand the almost exclusive emphasis on racial integration, when in fact we are getting more and more segregated into tight little cliques on age grounds.

Edith Schaeffer

#2. Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

Leo Howard

#3. And I think that's how I would describe love right now if someone asked me. You're so connected to someone else that the world and all its cliques and challenges and traumas and mysteries can't hurt you that much.

Audrey Hart

#4. I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.

Lorde

#5. I kept a journal when I was a teenager, so I definitely look back on those to see how I dealt with friends and cliques and getting picked on, or boyfriend breakups.

Sara Shepard

#6. I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

Aaron Douglas

#7. Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.

John Dewey

#8. You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?

Brandon Sanderson

#9. these ideological cliques form in a government--or any other organization. Subordinates are always chosen for their agreement with the views of their superiors, and the extremists always get to the top and shove the moderates under or out.

H. Beam Piper

#10. I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

Kelly Preston

#11. I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone.

Lucy Hale

#12. Note that scholars are judged mostly on how many times their work is referenced in other people's work and thus cliques are formed of people who quote one another. It's an "I quote you, you quote me" type of business.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#13. There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

Laura Prepon

#14. I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.

Jarvis Cocker

#15. I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Megan Fox

#16. Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.

Jerry Spinelli

#17. In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

Blake Lively

#18. Everywhere around me, already I see cliques, the kinds of cliques you see in schools everywhere: jocks, troublemakers, mathletes, you name it. Me, I am in a clique unto myself, the sole member of the group called "crazy.

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#19. Even quilters have cliques! I can't stop picturing Regina George, fifty years later, instructing her minions that 'On Wednesdays, we wear pink.

Rachel Bertsche

#20. My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.

Lindsey Shaw

#21. By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

C. Wright Mills

#22. I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

Alicia Keys

#23. Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.

Frederick Lenz

#24. There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps.

Priyanka Chopra

#25. Ostracism makes individuals feel they lack purpose, have less control over their lives, are less good moral beings, and lack self-worth. Those high school cliques aren't uniquely adolescent experiences: Human beings hate being left out. We conform because to do so seems to give our life meaning.

Anonymous

#26. It seems that Russia today - dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror - is destined to be ruled by self-promoting cliques for some time yet.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#27. I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the 'sporty good girl.'

Taylor Cole

#28. All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.

Adi Alsaid

#29. The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

George Bernard Shaw

#30. Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#31. These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.

Theodore Roosevelt

#32. In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

Wassily Kandinsky

#33. Hence, as long as China is divided among the imperialist powers, the various cliques of warlords cannot under any circumstances come to terms, and whatever compromises they may reach will only be temporary.

Mao Zedong

#34. Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques
actually defensive bastions against community.

M. Scott Peck

#35. No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.

Randy Alcorn

#36. I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.

Anna Meredith

#37. We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

IO Tillett Wright

#38. POPPY (on high school cliques): I wasn't smart enough for the gifted kids or athletic enough for the jocks. I didn't want to s*ck a lot of c*ck, so I couldn't be a cheerleader or popular girl.

Bijou Hunter

#39. The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques.

Rami Ollaik

#40. I've never been much given to little social cliques.

John Bercow

#41. I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

Nicole Anderson

#42. Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

George Bernard Shaw

#43. Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

Henry Ford

#44. And this is why I was often excluded in girly cliques; you would sooner find me dead than giggle shamelessly for attention at a good looking dude.

R.J. Lewis

#45. I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe.

Blake Lively

#46. No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

Colin Hanks

#47. I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

Eden Sher

#48. Jane wondered why small-minded people often form such large groups as she made her way home.

Chris Nicolaisen

#49. Have we found out about those losers yet?

Evelyn Smith

#50. Lions and tigers, bitches and bears, oh my.

Bryony Pearce

#51. It wasn't that she necessarily wanted to "socialize" at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy.

J.D. Stroube

#52. To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.

Tim Weiner

#53. That was back when all of us were students at Jefferson Elementary, and our quirks and strange rough edges hadn't fully formed yet

Jennifer Mathieu

#54. Call Charlotte, no one calls Charlotte. Charlotte calls you.

Evelyn Smith