Lenny Bruce

"All my life I've been a rebel, but I've never blown anything up."

"The sicker the material, the better I can make it."

"I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't have the education."

"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."

"The difference between me and you is that I'm free."

"I believe in everything until it's disproved."

"The role of comedy is to destroy the lies that power tells."

"You're all on the same team, and the name of the game is survival."

"The act of thinking is the act of dying."

"To me, that's what religion is - it's a very mannered way of dealing with fear."

"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"The problem with reality is the lack of background music."

"Satire is tragedy plus time."

"I'm a verb, not a noun."

"The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country."

"If I offend you, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to change."

"Comedy is the best way to tell the truth about injustice."

"You can't make people laugh at the truth unless you understand it first."

"Society should pay me for doing what they won't let me do."

"The real obscenity is not in the language; it's in the system."

"Psychedelics are not for everyone, but they're especially not for earmuffs."

"The reason I'm in trouble is I tell the truth."

"I'm sick of the phoniness in comedy."

"The role of comedy is to expose hypocrisy."

"If you take no risks, you'll have a nice life, but you won't have a great one."

"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know anything."

"I feel that the obligation of the artist is to enlighten."

"The only way out is through."

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."