If there was absolute ...

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.
If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.
 Lenny Bruce

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!
 Lenny Bruce
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.
 Lenny Bruce
The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
 Lenny Bruce
Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.
 Lenny Bruce
I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.
 Lenny Bruce