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Quote by Freda Adler
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its socia

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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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. – Freda Adler

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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism. – Edward Abbey

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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. – Marguerite Blessington

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The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
Its power over us–Not all are free
Who make mock of their chains. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. – Sarah Bernhardt

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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. – Henry Ward Beecher

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