The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it. Lenny Bruce More Quotes by Lenny Bruce More Quotes From Lenny Bruce The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals. Lenny Bruce criminals politics government You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are concerned with how cute or how pretty. Then let's really get basic and persecute ugly people! Lenny Bruce real sleep cute There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor. Lenny Bruce poverty bread war Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves. Lenny Bruce marijuana law order I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God. Lenny Bruce gave-up religion thinking It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. Lenny Bruce suppression violence giving The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is. Lenny Bruce live-life trying people There are no dirty words, only dirty minds. Lenny Bruce dirty-minds mind dirty Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers. Lenny Bruce technology kids years If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish. Lenny Bruce marine new-york air Anyone who has two shirts when someone has none is not a christian. Lenny Bruce shirts christian two Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you. Lenny Bruce boss men two Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone. Lenny Bruce love relationship funny The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. Lenny Bruce political funny people You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill. Lenny Bruce jail law people All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. Lenny Bruce despair disease world 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 children school jesus Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me. Lenny Bruce alarms groups country You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty. Lenny Bruce eight compassion dirty Koolaid is goyish. All Drake's Cakes are goyish. Pumpernickel is Jewish, and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes - goyish. Black cherry soda's very Jewish. Macaroons are very Jewish - very Jewish cake. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jell-O is goyish. Lime soda is very goyish. Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won't go near them. Lenny Bruce fruit-salad cake white
