This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Being considered or labeled mentally disordered – abnormal, crazy, mad, psychotic, sick, it matters not what variant is used – is the most profoundly discrediting classification that can be imposed on a person today. Mental illness casts the “patient” out of our social order just as surely as heresy cast the “witch” out of medieval society. That, indeed, is the very purpose of stigma terms." -
"Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe." - Mary Shelley, née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
"Any stigma will do to beat a dogma." - Philip Guedalla
"I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after the operation than some people who have bypass surgery because I was completely cured. But when you mentioned "heart transplant," you got a very negative reaction. It triggered people's imaginations, and not in a good way." - Robert Altman, fully Robert Bernard Altman
"The American Federation of Labor secured the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Law by the Federal Government, and the effective amendments to that law. Our fellow workmen living on the Pacific Coast and Hawaii realized the danger that not only threatened but confronted them from Chinese, Korean, and other Mongolian laborers, and the American Federation of Labor conventions declared that efforts should be made to extend the exclusion laws or to bring about some exclusion of Oriental laborers coming to the United States and its possessions." - Samuel Gompers
"Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?" - Stefan Zweig
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. " - Thomas N. Carruthers
"God made man of the dust of the earth and man makes a god of the dust of the earth" - Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
"It is essential for each of us to strive to retain originality and to maintain our identity as human beings." - Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.
"The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented." - Erving Goffman