Quote by Freda Adler
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it ma

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. – 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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Superstition
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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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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior. – D.A. Battista

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Bravery

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. 2 Kings 6:16 – Bible

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Bravery

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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Bravery

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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. – John Hawkes

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Fear

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. – Willa Cather

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great

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. – Sojourner Truth

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Religion

Persevere and get it done. – George Allen

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Persistence