Robert Pattinson Quotes

Here is a man with the greatest intellect in Europe, and yet he debases it by simply following majorities and the crowd.

Most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... [and] a body of sacred documents and heroes.

There are no human beings whose sense of social identity is fully and exclusively given for themselves by the membership of the working (or any other) class

When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.

I don't want to name my fandom, I want them to name themselves. If I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.

Sometimes in Asian homes it is all about where we've come from, which is important too, but it is about where you live and where you're born and the people who are the same as you.

Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality - it goes with the crowd.

In society, you are taught to belong. You have to belong to something.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

The whole entire album is about Cry Baby, you know, being super insecure and kind of like going through her emotions until she finally realizes that she's comfortable with how crazy and insane she is and I think that I've made the exact same kind of progression , and the growth...and I don't know, like I feel like I've definitely grown into who I am and, like, I think Cry Baby is just me.

They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

I do consider myself Canadian, but I feel American, too. I've spent more than fifteen years in each of the two countries, so really I just think of myself as a dual citizen, which is what I am. Thankfully, I've never been forced to choose!

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.