Goffman Asylums Quotes & Sayings

If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

Making you smile gives me life. Making you laugh gives me hope. Making you happy is all I want, other than to keep you. — Staci Hart

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

Sometimes caring feels like spoiling. Gratitude evens things out. — Cynthia Ruchti

What is the use of composing if it is to confine the product within the precinct of the concert or the solitude of listening to the radio? To compose, at least by propensity, is to give to do, not to give to hear but to give to write. The modern location for music is not the concert hall, but the stage on which the musicians pass, in what is often a dazzling display, from one source of sound to another. It is we who are playing, though still it is true by proxy; but one can imagine the concert - later on? - as exclusively a workshop, from which nothing spills over - no dream, no imaginary, no short, no 'soul' and where all the musical art is absorbed in a praxis with no remainder. — Roland Barthes

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up. — Emmanuel Jal

obliteration of the Negro home. A people thus handicapped ought not to be asked to race with the world, but rather allowed to give all its time and thought to its own social problems. — W.E.B. Du Bois