Kanye West Quotes

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

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

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

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.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

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.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in.

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

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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

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.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

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

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.

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

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.