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Societal pressure Quotes

"They teach you to just stay in line"

"Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in GQ magazine."

"Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you."

"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself"

"When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand."

"You’re not afraid of failing. You’re afraid of what other people will think of you if you fail. But if you’re afraid of that, imagine what they think of you when you aren’t even trying. Oh yea, they aren’t."

"Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like."

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny"

"Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world"

"Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be, to be accepted."

"We have an epidemic of stresses in the world that keeps people from being who they really are"

"I do think about if I didn’t have all this makeup on and I would never be able to be seen by a man but no, I don’t think I really have had that pressure of needing to look perfect"

"It's been funny to see how some parts of the media and audiences think that I should know English perfectly well by now."