The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. -Freda Adler

 

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.


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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Freda Adler
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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

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That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. -Freda Adler
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Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Freda Adler
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Freda Adler
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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. -Freda Adler
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The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

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