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

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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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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

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The paper burns, but the words fly away. – Akiba ben Joseph

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Every burned book enlightens the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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