Quote by Robert Bork
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became a

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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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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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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Nature
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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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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or ones people that has not previously been taken into account. – Alice Walker

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In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next? – Jessica Savitch

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I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that youre afraid to the point where you censor yourself. – Tim Robbins

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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin. – Rand Paul

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