Freda Adler Quotes

• It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

  Freda Adler

  Progress, Asking, May

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

  Freda Adler

  Men, Law, Mistress

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• Los grandes movimientos sociales acaban desvaneciéndose en el paisaje no porque hayan disminuido, sino porque se han convertido en una parte permanente de nuestras percepciones y experiencias.

  Freda Adler

  Perception, Experience, Movement

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• El tipo de hoja de parra que cada cultura emplea para cubrir sus tabúes sociales ofrece una doble descripción de su moralidad. Revela que existe cierto comportamiento no reconocido y sugiere la forma que adopta dicho comportamiento.

  Freda Adler

  Social Taboos, Culture, Morality

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

  Freda Adler

  Funny, Philosophical, Humor

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.

  Freda Adler

  Men, Law, Class

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.

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• Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

  Freda Adler

  Sex, Order, Differences

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• La caballerosidad tiene otra cara. Si dispensa indulgencia, puede invocar el control con igual justificación.

  Freda Adler

  Courage, May, Sides

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.

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• There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

  Freda Adler

  Matter, Virtue, Crime

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• Los Rubicones que las mujeres deben cruzar, las barreras sexuales que deben traspasar, son en última instancia las que existen en sus propias mentes.

  Freda Adler

  Sex, Mind, Crosses

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• 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

  Strength, Vices, Criminals

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• Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

  Freda Adler

  Addiction, Drug, Humanity

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• The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

  Freda Adler

  Knowledge, Passionate, Eras

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• That man is a creature who 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

  Change, Heart, Men

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.

  Freda Adler

  Fashion, Long, Deception

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