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Lenny Bruce Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.



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Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.



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I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.



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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.



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.

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.



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