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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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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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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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. – Freda Adler

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Research is creating new knowledge. – Neil Armstrong

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. – Charles Caleb Colton

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the minds dignity. – William Ellery Channing

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. – Horace Mann

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