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The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel. — Walt Mueller

There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure. — Dennis Wolfberg

The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards. — Dick Van Dyke

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready — Liam Williams

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

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest. — Thomas Hughes

Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules. — Alexandra Robbins

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. — Criss Jami

Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to. — Nick Cole

Peer pressure is nothing compared
to ancestor pressure. — Pickles

Peer pressure is one thing, but when your dad's the pusher, it's something else entirely. — David Arnold

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. — Bruce Lee

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure. — Paul Collier

Basketball Rule #5
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost. — Kwame Alexander

To conform to a sick society is to become sick. — Richard J. Foster

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. — Charles Krauthammer

Don't conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country! — Billy Graham

The author says we enlist reasons to convince others to join the direction of our instincts. — Jonathan Haidt

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people
the one people want you to be and the one you want to be. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Religion is peer pressure on steroids. — R. Elise Elrod

The real enforcer, and this is true for the entire Lycurgan system, was peer pressure. — Scott Rusch

I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality. — Joss Sheldon

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right. — Steve Martin

She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe. — Nicki Elson

Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould. — Henry Handel Richardson

My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams — John Taliaferro

Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions. — Alexandra Robbins

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America. — Stendhal

If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden. — David McGee

Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others. — Steve Maraboli

If you live on a farm, there is definite peer pressure to grow something. — Janaki Lenin

Original Sin has great marketing potential. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure. — Sara Paxton

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure. — Kevin Gates

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure. — Tony Orlando

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. — Mike Lofgren

When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us. — Matt Chandler

Merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd. — Adam M. Grant

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure. — Wyclef Jean

They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed. — Stephanie Dray

Peer pressure is just that: pressure. — Jerry Spinelli

Her mother, by showing her off all through childhood, had trained into her the instinct to defeat the expectations of others. — Stephen L. Carter

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves. — Walt Mueller

Peer pressure must never be an influence on us. Nor should unjust rules or laws have any effect on us. What is right must always be done. — Abbot George Burke

Hermits have no peer pressure. — Steven Wright

Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive. — Eugene Mirman

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure. — Shannon L. Alder

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media. — Criss Jami

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley

Its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members could be dealt with only in bodies and droves. — Robert A. Caro

Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough. — Kool Moe Dee

Fitting in is one of those horrible diseases that turn reasonable minds into sheep-gelatin hive minds. — Alida Nugent

The South, which is peopled with ardent and irascible beings, is becoming more irritated and alarmed. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married. — Adam Levine

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

When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted. — Alexandra Robbins

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. — Aesop

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them. — Alexandra Robbins

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose. — Truth Devour

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. — Moritz Gudemann

He had a hard time fitting in. A sense of isolation left over from all those years. Not quite peer pressure. More like peer rejection. — Jamie Ford

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure". — Susan Cain

If the First Toddler wears it, it has to be fashionable. — Tom Clancy

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it. — Sol Luckman

As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay. — Adi Alsaid

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality. — Alexandra Robbins

If you choose to engage in one night stands, make sure you have a good reason and peer pressure is NOT one. — Shahla Khan