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 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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Equality
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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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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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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. – Arianna Stassinopoulos

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We feed on the world in increasingly desperate attempts to compensate for feelings of incompleteness, separation, and alienation. This is a sorry way to live. – Ken McLeod, Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention

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You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society. – David Korten

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