If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control. — 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
