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Erving Goffman quotes: The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.

The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.

Erving Goffman quotes: All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify

All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify

Erving Goffman quotes: So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

Erving Goffman quotes: We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.

We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.

Erving Goffman quotes: Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.

Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.

Erving Goffman quotes: Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

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

Erving Goffman quotes: The world, in truth, is a wedding.

The world, in truth, is a wedding.

Erving Goffman quotes: Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

Erving Goffman quotes: Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

Erving Goffman quotes: Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.