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Quotes of Freda Adler

1870-1937 Pioneer Psychiatrist Born in Vienna
  • 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. (taboos)
  • 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. (order)
  • Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. (crime and criminals)
  • There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. (courage)
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  • It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. (John Wanamaker)