Robert Bork Quotes - Page 2

One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all.

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

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.

There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

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

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing