Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

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

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

I was so interested in makeup, but I was pressured to follow what my family and friends wanted me to do.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

Scaling down individually is very hard. Imagine that if you go to a place where everybody is dressed nicely, and you are the only one who doesn't dress nicely. Everybody goes on vacations to a great place and you go to the Jersey shore. It's very hard to do these things without an organized mechanism, but it looks to me like there might be some organized mechanisms.

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

I was waiting for all other actresses to wear a bikini first so I can just follow the bandwagon.

When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'

Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?

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.