Quote by 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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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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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 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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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. – Charles de Secondat

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Society

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, “On the Pitying,” Thus Spake Zarathustra

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Society

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Society

The human races prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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Society

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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of womens emancipation. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Art

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us. – Shelley Berman

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Health