'Sex' and 'obscenity' are not synonymous.
--Lenny Bruce
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
--Lenny Bruce
Communism is like one big phone company.
--Lenny Bruce
Every day people are staying away from the church and going back to God.
--Lenny Bruce
Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.
--Lenny Bruce
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
--Lenny Bruce
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm going to be if I grow up.'
--Lenny Bruce
I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
--Lenny Bruce
I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
--Lenny Bruce
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
--Lenny Bruce
If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
--Lenny Bruce
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
--Lenny Bruce
It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.
--Lenny Bruce
Life is a four-letter word.
--Lenny Bruce
Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
--Lenny Bruce
Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.
--Lenny Bruce
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers, will allow you to satirize it which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
--Lenny Bruce
Take away the right to say 'f*ck' and you take away the right to say 'f*ck the government.'
--Lenny Bruce
The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.
--Lenny Bruce
The kind of sickness I wish Time had written about, is that school teachers in Oklahoma get a top annual salary of $4000, while Sammy Davis, Jr. gets $10,000 a week in Vegas.
--Lenny Bruce
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
--Lenny Bruce
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.
--Lenny Bruce
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
--Lenny Bruce
The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'
--Lenny Bruce
There are never enough 'I love you's.'
--Lenny Bruce
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
--Lenny Bruce
We're all the same people... and it discourages me that we try so desperately to be unique.
--Lenny Bruce
When you're eight years old, nothing is your business.
--Lenny Bruce
You can't get snot off of a suede jacket.
--Lenny Bruce
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