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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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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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 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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One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesnt work on this mirror principle, you dont have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesnt work that way. – Thomas Frank

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Australia has an increasingly multicultural society. – Julie Bishop

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Once boys and mens challenges are clear, the question why now quickly becomes why didnt we see this sooner? The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. – Warren Farrell

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On the surface we all act like we all love each other and were free and easy, and actually were far more moralistic than any other society Ive ever lived in. – Kathy Acker

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