Challenges Quote by John Steinbeck

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through…

— Erving Goffman

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

— Erving Goffman

Stigma is a social gangrene that has paralysed the function order in our communities

— Russyb

With a lot of these social stigmas, they just don't need to be in place. Just by talking about them, we can often shatter…

— Justin Prentice

“This cultural Left thinks more about stigma than about money, more about deep and hidden psychosexual motivations than about shallow and evident greed.”

— Richard M. Rorty

People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.

— Ezra Furman

I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their…

— Meera Syal

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

— Seth Klarman

“Narcissists commonly cut people off and out of their lives due to their shallow emotional style of seeing others as either good or bad.”

— Karyl McBride

“Psychological abusers are known for becoming jealous of any attention not being given to them.”

— Shannon Thomas

If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".

— Bill McKibben

“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is being moral,…

— Abhijit Naskar