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