The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal"… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
