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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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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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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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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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. – William Hazlitt

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. – Marlene Dietrich

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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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