Freda Quotes & Sayings

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

I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few. — Tamara Tunie

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

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

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

You colour my world, Freda... — L. H. Cosway

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

We all make mistakes, but it's how we deal with the consequences that show our true worth, — Freda Lightfoot

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. — Freda Adler

The study showed that both boys and girls who have had sex are three times more likely to be depressed than their friends who are still virgins. The study accounted for other factors in the lives of the young people, ensuring an accurate comparison with their peers. The girls who became sexually active were three times more likely to have attempted suicide as their virgin friends, while the sexually active boys were fully seven times more likely to have attempted suicide.8 — Freda McKissic Bush

he didn't love me at all, — Freda Lightfoot

At night when they prepared for bed Freda removed all her clothes and lay like a great fretful baby, majestically dimpled and curved. Brenda wore her pajamas and her underwear and a tweed coat - that was the difference between them. — Beryl Bainbridge

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

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

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

You're a bit of an odd duck aren't you Freda,' she says, her glasses hanging too low on her nose. 'Quack,' I reply. — L. H. Cosway

How wise we all are in retrospect. Unfortunately it was not possible to go back and change the past: one could only move on into a new future. — Freda Lightfoot

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. — Freda Adler

background. 5. Rubin's vase — Freda McManus

I want to ruin you Freda, in the best way possible. — L. H. Cosway

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. — Freda Adler

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

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

I'm addicted to Jack's Wife Freda, a South African - Jewish-inspired restaurant founded by my brother Dean and his amazing wife, Maya. The vibe is cool and relaxed, perfect for a daytime bite or a nightcap. I always get the Peri-Peri chicken and the kale Greek salad, but all the food is delicious. You simply cannot go wrong! — Kara Janx

She doesn't understand why I'd want to go by the name of some middle aged van driver when I could go by a pretty name like Freda. I told her I like to be economical with syllables. — L. H. Cosway

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

Perhaps the breaking of the human spirit into submissive, thoughtless robots is the most terrible feature of Stalin's Russia. Humanity is bowed down. Every one cringes before his superiors, and those who abase themselves seek outlets in bullying and terrifying the unfortunates beneath them. Integrity, courage and charity disappear in the stifling atmosphere of cant, falsehood and terror. — Freda Utley

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. — Freda Adler

Rosie, maybe I'm a masochist, but I think the world of you. You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen and you've got no idea. You think it's any fun for me to sit here being loathed by you? I'm in love with you. — Freda Warrington

I don't think I'll ever be the man you deserve Freda."
"You already are. — L. H. Cosway

In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung a sign: "The best violins in all Italy." Not to be outdone, their next-door neighbors, the family Guarnerius, hung a bolder sign proclaiming: "The Best Violins In All The World!" At the end of the street was the workshop of Anton Stradivarius, and on its front door was a simple notice which read: "The best violins on the block." — Freda Bright

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