Quote by Robert Bork
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual clas

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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Society
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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. – Robert Bork

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Change
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The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. – Robert Bork

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Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays… Why be exclusive when you can be inclusive? – S.A. Sachs

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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. – William James

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. – George Bernard Shaw

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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson

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