Jessie Buckley Quotes

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

Because we're brought into the world or educated in a certain way, we're trained to accept the world in a certain way.

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

The free, self-determining, self-developing soul may not walk its own path, however innocently, but must fit into the scheme and pattern …

We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

Man is a child of his environment.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

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

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.

If a community decides this is how you're going to dress and these are the punishments, who are we to say different?

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains--chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment--in a word, Circumstance--and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

There's that bubble of childhood that makes you innocently do anything. Then, when you get older, that pops, and you're aware of limitations and judgment and social pressures and things like that.