“It is only by ignoring fact, science, and reason that one can support current Republican positions.”— Avi Silverman Related Quotes “People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.”– Edmund Burke “What they don’t tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I’ve never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.”— Nadia Bolz-Weber “… if one hasn’t been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.”— Anthony Eden