Quote by Lenny Bruce
Take away the right to say

Take away the right to say “fuck” and you take away the right to say “fuck the government.” – Lenny Bruce

Other quotes by Lenny Bruce

The reason Im in this business, I assume all performers are — its Look at me, Ma! Its acceptance, you know — Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, youll show off till youre exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew! – Lenny Bruce

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Entertainment
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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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Humor
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Censorship
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. – Robertson Davies

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Censorship

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. – Thomas Bowdler

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Censorship

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. – Walt Whitman

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Censorship

One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed. – Edgar Dale

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Censorship

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Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. – John Lancaster Spalding

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Im a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love – and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. – Emma Watson

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Its funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway. – Lena Dunham

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