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Erving Goffman has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
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Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
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The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to…
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The world, in truth, is a wedding.
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Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated,…
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Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
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Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and…
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters…
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Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise…
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All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify
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The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
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Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each…
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Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
— Tony Robbins
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Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
— Dorothy Rowe
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
— James Russell Lowell
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It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that…
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Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with…
— Jay Adams
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Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of…
— Jon Anderson
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
— Brendan Behan
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It…
— John O'Donohue
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