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 role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. – Lenny Bruce

Category:
Humor
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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

Category:
Humor
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Other Quotes from
Censorship
category

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. – Tommy Smothers

Category:
Censorship

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud, 1933

Category:
Censorship

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. – Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764

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Censorship

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. – Dick Cavett

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Censorship

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Nature

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. – Baltasar Gracian

Category:
Happiness

Optimism is the opium of the people. – Milan Kundera

Category:
Optimism

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. – Eleonora Duse

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Nature