Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
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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
It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.
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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.
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Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
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Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
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The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
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