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Nobody killed gods, nobody had the intention of killing gods. People simply ignored them as they failed to keep their promises
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
— Erving Goffman
Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.
— Francis Thompson
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
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
— Erving Goffman
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
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
— Erving Goffman
A new millennium requires new methods of ministry.
— Sunday Adelaja
Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.
— Erving Goffman
When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.
— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The world, in truth, is a wedding.
— Erving Goffman
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
— Erving Goffman
We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.
— Erving Goffman
I want to do everything. That's my problem.
— Joshua Bell