Quote by Freda Adler
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preo

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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. – 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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Crime
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That man is a creature who 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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Change
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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. – Thomas a Kempis

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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. – F. H. Bradley

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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. – William Ellery Channing

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