1870-1937, Pioneer Psychiatrist, Born in Vienna
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler – [Crime and Criminals]
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 – [Order]
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 – [Taboos]
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Freda Adler – [Courage]