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Robert Bork Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Robert Bork
Type:
Public Servant
Nationality:
American
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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-BorkRobert Bork
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    An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. Robert-BorkRobert Bork
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    Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. Robert-BorkRobert Bork
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    I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself. Robert-BorkRobert Bork
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    In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge. Robert-BorkRobert Bork
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    Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. Robert-BorkRobert 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-BorkRobert 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-BorkRobert 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-BorkRobert Bork
  • 10
    The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. Robert-BorkRobert Bork
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    Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. Robert-BorkRobert Bork
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    When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions. Robert-BorkRobert Bork