Erving Goffman Quotes
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 kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.
Quotes to Explore
-
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
-
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
-
There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
-
Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
-
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
-
Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
-
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
-
I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
-
In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
-
I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'
-
As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
-
I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
-
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
-
New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.
-
Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.
-
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
-
I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
-
I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
-
What we believe is that health care should be a right in this country; I happen to believe that means that we should be for single-payer.
-
I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.
-
I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.
-
By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto-that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her. ... I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
-
I've always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true - the kids are our future.
-
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 kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.
