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

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Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush. – Platen

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

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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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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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