Paul Krassner

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this…

— Paul Krassner

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

— Paul Krassner

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too…

— Paul Krassner

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be…

— Paul Krassner

Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.

— Paul Krassner

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

— Paul Krassner

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it.…

— Paul Krassner

There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news.

— Paul Krassner

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

— Paul Krassner

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars…

— Paul Krassner

People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time…

— Paul Krassner

“If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though,…

— Paul Krassner

“False humility is better than no humility at all.”

— Paul Krassner

I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try…

— Paul Krassner

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

— Paul Krassner

“Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking…

— Paul Krassner

I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

— Paul Krassner

Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.

— Paul Krassner

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

— Paul Krassner