Behavior Quote by Freda Adler

“Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really…

— Shai Tubali

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

— Anne Spencer

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

— Mark Lowry

“Some plant wild fig trees near cultivated fig trees, and there are others who, to remedy the weakness of the productive fig tree of…

— Philip Schaff

“The moral sense sanctifies a set of norms and taboos that govern the interactions among people in a culture, sometimes in ways that decrease…

— Steven Pinker

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from…

— Rumi

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

— Kate Burridge

“Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo)…

— Michael Pollan

“The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at the same…

— Lee Siegel

The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were accountable for…

— Eric D. Huntsman

Too many developers still treat cultural strategies as a fig leaf to get planning permission, rather than make a thoughtful, genuine commitment to the…

— Munira Mirza