Lenny Bruce

"The only way to win is to not play their game."

"They're afraid of what I know, not what I say."

"Money doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt money."

"I'm sick of the whole system, and I'm not interested in making nice."

"Art that doesn't offend anyone isn't really art."

"The establishment always attacks the artist first."

"I used to be addicted to heroin. Now I'm addicted to coffee. That's progress."

"You can't offend me because I don't respect the rules you're trying to enforce."

"The law is whatever the lawmaker says it is that day."

"I want to leave a mark on the world that shows I was here and I was honest."

"The sickness is in the system, not in the person."

"When you're dead, you don't know you're dead. It's the same as being stupid."

"I'm not trying to shock people. I'm trying to tell the truth."

"The problem with birth control is that it takes all the fun out of the rape."

"Loyalty is to people, not to institutions."

"The greatest crime is boredom."

"If it ain't real, why are they so afraid of it?"

"Every day I wake up and think about dying. Then I remember I'm already living."

"The only way to be truly free is to scare yourself to death."

"Words are just sounds until they hit somebody's heart."

"I'm an atheist until I get on a plane. Then I'm the most religious man alive."

"The real crime is that they won't let me speak."

"If you use a word often enough, it loses its power."

"Everything they told me would happen if I used those words happened anyway without me using them."

"The sickest thing about the sick comic is that he reflects the sickness of society."

"I want to wake people up, not put them to sleep with lies."

"They called me sick because I told the truth about being sick."

"The law is an ass, and I'm here to beat it."

"Every word that was ever forbidden is the most interesting word."

"If you're not laughing, you're not thinking."