“For over a decade now in the literature of social psychology there has been good work on stigma - the situation of the individual who is disqualified from full social acceptance. This work has been added to from time to time by useful clinical studies, and its framework applied to ever new categories of persons”
Preface, lead paragraph
1950s-1960s, Stigma, 1963
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"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

Source: Mind, Self, and Society. 1934, p. 1 , lead paragraph

Collected Works, Vol. 28, pp. 180–182.
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Social Deterioration
1980s–1990s, Is Reality Optional? (1993)
"On the Modern Element in Modern Literature," Partisan Review (January/February 1961); reprinted as "On the Teaching of Modern Literature," Beyond Culture (1965)
Context: A real book reads us. I have been read by Eliot's poems and by Ulysses and by Remembrance of Things Past and by The Castle for a good many years now, since early youth. Some of these books at first rejected me; I bored them. But as I grew older and they knew me better, they came to have more sympathy with me and to understand my hidden meanings. Their nature is such that our relationship has been very intimate. No literature has ever been so shockingly personal as that of our time — it asks every question that is forbidden by polite society.

1950s - 1960s, Excerpt, What Abstract Art Means to Me (1951)

"Totalitarianism and the Virtue of the Lie", as quoted in Is God Happy? Selected Essays (2013), Basic Books, p. 57