 Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. |
| Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. |
| The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. |
| There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. |
| 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. |
