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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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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 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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The little things, I can obey. But the big things – how we think, what we value – those you must choose yourself. You cant let anyone – or any society – determine those for you. – Morrie Schwartz

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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. – Greg Egan, “Distress”

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