Quote by Robert Bork
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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. – Robert Bork

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Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. – Robert Bork

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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. – Robert Bork

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. – E. O. Wilson

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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. – Saint Ambrose

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