Paul Krassner Quotes

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• For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.
• 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. But basically, one's…
• As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances…
• Irreverence is our only sacred cow.
• I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.
• I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.
• Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.
• The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes…
• People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they've accepted…
• English is my second language. Laughter is my first.
• I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

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