Quote by 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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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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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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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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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. – Herbert Read

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The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. – Ronald Firbank

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Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individuals abilities. – Evelyn Glennie

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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. – Karl Marx

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We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. – Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. – Arthur Machen

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When I am grown to mans estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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great

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. – James Madison

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