Chance The Rapper Quotes

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

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

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.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

I'm not trying to become popular.

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.

Popularity is totally overrated.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

… the irresistible power of concentrated public opinion

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

You want to please society. You want to be happy. You want to be well liked. You want to be held in high esteem and be respected. These are real things. You want respect from your peers, respect from your loved ones; you want to be looked up to for your achievements and your accomplishments. All of this requires conformity in some form or another.

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.