Rita Mae Brown Quotes

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

What is familiar tends to become a value.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

All language is a popularity contest.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does least for progress.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him.

Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms in part because they change our assumptions about what other people think.

Men always like what the ladies like.

If someone in a powerful position acts in a certain way or expresses a certain view, we implicitly assume that those actions and views are associated with power, and that emulating them may be to our advantage.

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change.

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.