Controversy Quote by Freda Adler

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

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

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

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

— Freda Adler

“1. Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."--”

— Freda Adler

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

— Freda Adler

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

— Freda Adler

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

— Freda Adler

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

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

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

— Freda Adler

The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain…

— Freda Adler