Krassner Paul Quotes

#1. Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Billy Joel

#2. Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous.

Paul Krassner

#3. Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price, only value.

Bel Kaufman

#4. I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

Paul Krassner

#5. Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

Seneca The Younger

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

Paul Krassner

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

Paul Krassner

#8. The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Yehudi Menuhin

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

Paul Krassner

#10. 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 individuality consists of conformity
to one's self.

Paul Krassner

#11. Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

Paul Krassner

#12. False humility is better than no humility at all.

Paul Krassner

#13. How can I respect a house where women are no more than servants? How can I respect rules laid down by a phantom father? How can I respect a man who ...

Ellen Hopkins

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

Paul Krassner

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

Paul Krassner

#16. Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

Paul Krassner

#17. This is a difficult country to look too different in - the United States of Advertising, as Paul Krassner puts it - and if you are too skinny or too tall or dark or weird or short or frizzy or homely or poor or nearsighted, you get crucified. I did. But

Anne Lamott

#18. 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.

Paul Krassner

#19. Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.

Gary Allan

#20. The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.

Harlan Ellison

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

Paul Krassner

#22. 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 are political prisoners

Paul Krassner

#23. Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

Joseph Mitchell

#24. Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.

Paul Krassner

#25. When you practice positive inner dialogue, people will want to bond with you, help you, be near you. They want to share in the bliss that shines through your eyes and is reflected in your every action.

Deepak Chopra

#26. English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

Paul Krassner

#27. 'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.

David Ayer

#28. One - about cigarettes - I was pleased to see that anticigarette ad on the back issue of Hustler. I'm more offended by seeing ads for cigarettes in magazines than pictures of vaginas, because one kills and the other gives life - and I think that's an important difference.

Paul Krassner

#29. Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

Bob Gibson

#30. 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 whatever truth is embedded in your humor.

Paul Krassner

#31. There is never any valid reason for not being in full mental focus.

Barbara Branden

#32. The way he said "Prism" left no question about what he meant: it was a proper name, the title of some strange passage, and his voice ached around that single syllable like flesh aches around a knife.

Seanan McGuire