Erving Goffman Stigma Quotes

#1. Just remember, quality assignments are the hallmark of effective teaching; teaching made up mostly of testing does not improve student learning.

Eleanor Dougherty

#2. In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his coming to the beliefs and practices that he now has regarding his own kind and normals.

Erving Goffman

#3. The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

Len Wein

#4. I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. Books, Perry, books! The backbone of civilization. And our homework." I

Karina Halle

#6. A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

Angelica Hopes

#7. You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. The issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with.

Erving Goffman

#9. I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.

Anthony Warlow

#10. Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.

Bob Shacochis

#11. They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

Anne Tyler

#12. Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Erving Goffman

#13. Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.

Lauren Myracle

#14. Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

Harry S. Truman

#15. No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

Rose Pastor Stokes

#16. The way you love the man you marry is going to be different than the love you felt for an old boyfriend.

Jillian Dodd

#17. Even in my bad luck I have always been lucky.

Bohumil Hrabal

#18. Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physically, emotionally and spiritually is a goal worthy of our highest priority.

Alexandra Stoddard