Quote by 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 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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Knowledge
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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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Bravery
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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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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed. – Honore de Balzac

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Crime

Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. – Proverb

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Crime

Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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