Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce (born Leonard Alfred Schneider) (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966) was an American stand-up comic and political satirist.

Quotes by Lenny Bruce

• "If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish."

• " A Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descendant from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary, but you and I know what a Jew is: One Who Killed Our Lord... there should be a statute of limitations for that crime."

• "A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno... it was one of those parties that got out of hand, you know?"

• "...since they condone capital punishment , I want them to stop bitching about Jesus getting nailed up."

• "If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."

• "Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."

• "I didn't do it, man, I only said it."
  • To police on the occasion of his arrest for obscenity, 1964

• A knowledge of syphilis is not an instruction to get it.

• "I want to perform an unnatural act"
  • Lenny as the Lone Ranger, in Thank You Masked Man

• "'Sex' and 'obscenity are not synonymous."

• "If something about the human body disgusts you, complain to the manufacturer."

• " It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness."
  • The word he was referring to is "nigger"