« All From Quotes · Erving Goffman's Page
From Quotes by Erving Goffman
- The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is…
- Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little…
- And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special…
- The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different…
More From Quotes
- Whenever u get hurt from those people whom u love most don't blame them, fault is not their its your fault that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt