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• Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
• That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws…
• If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice"…
• There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
• Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of…
• The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as…
• The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
• The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals…

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