Ability Quote by George Carlin

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

— Dorothy Kilgallen

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

— Jimmy Carl Black

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

— Sheldon Harnick

Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny…

— Joe Rogan

“character-driven idea fascinated Barrios. It suggested that genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather…

— Sean Patrick

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

— Tacitus

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

— Robert Downey Sr

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

— Novalis

“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson