Lenny Bruce

"Freedom is laughing at things that aren't funny."

"I'm the only guy that's ever made a living at indecency."

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results."

"Society has three institutions: the church, the government, and the family."

"All my humor is based on destruction and despair."

"If something is obscene, it shouldn't be obscene everywhere else."

"Communication is the only way to truly connect with another human being."

"I used to be a conscientious objector, now I'm a conscious objector."

"The sicker the society, the sicker the comic needs to be."

"I'm interested in all kinds of people - good people, bad people."

"You can't do anything about yesterday. You can only live today."

"The real issue is free speech, not decency."

"Morality is relative to where you are in the cosmic game."

"If you want to understand me, listen to what I say when I'm angry."

"Every belief I have got me in some kind of trouble."

"I'm very open-minded about what life has to offer."

"The deeper the truth, the more outrageous it sounds."

"People arrest me everywhere I go. It's not a gimmick - I'm serious."

"Language is what separates us from the animals."

"I don't have the morals of a church mouse; I have the morals of a man."

"The first amendment is not about nice speech."

"A man in the dark looking for a light switch in a room that doesn't exist."

"Society tells you to be respectable, not to be yourself."

"I am my own sanctuary, and I can be reborn as many times as I choose."

"The sickest joke is the one people laugh at the most."

"True freedom is saying what everyone thinks but no one says."

"I've been convicted three times in my life, twice for the wrong things."

"The government doesn't care about the truth, only about power."

"If you can't say the word, you can't say the idea."

"The only obscenity is how we treat each other."