Freda Adler Quotes

"The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes."
-Freda Adler

"That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."
-Freda Adler in Agreement quotes.

"Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."
-Freda Adler

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

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