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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole w

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Id be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. – Lenny Bruce

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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

Category:
Capital Punishment
Author
Lenny Bruce
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The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You cant fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour – ha ha ha ha ha – theyll take you away, man. You cant. – Lenny Bruce

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Art
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Lenny Bruce
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Humor
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I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it arm around the shoulder humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. Its mean, mean stuff. – Robert Orben

Category:
Humor

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. – Jonathan Swift

Category:
Humor

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Humor

Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. – Mary Hirsch

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Humor

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The Lords prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. – Arthur Wellesley

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You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. – Christopher Dawson

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Everything thats bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because thats the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people. – Gil Scott-Heron

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