6 Quotes & Sayings By Paul Krassner

Paul Krassner is a writer, comedian, and satirist. He is the founding member of The Realists, a long-running satirical newspaper founded by Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl. He was a contributor to the counter-culture anthology The New Left: A Tribute to Heroes of a Lost Generation (1970) and his work has appeared in numerous magazines including Playboy, The Village Voice, High Times, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Time Out New York, and The Village Voice. He co-edited the first issue of the underground paper the Realist in 1953 with his friend Henry Klein Read more

In 1960 he became editor of The Realist. After years of success at the helm of the Realist, Krassner decided to start his own publication in 1965 called ROTC (for Real Old Time Comics). He was editor for over three years before the daily newspaper closed its doors when its owner was sentenced to prison for tax evasion.

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If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one. But, whereas animals don't have a rational code of ethics, I like to think I do. Which is where I am partisan. Moral partisanship is the reason for my "anger." And if I don't protest what needed to be protested, I might just as well be an animal. Paul Krassner
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False humility is better than no humility at all. Paul Krassner
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Irreverence is our only sacred cow. Paul Krassner
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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
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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