I have a lot of problems with 'the system.' But you know what I do when I encounter a system I can't handle? I don't try to change it. I don't complain about it. I just find a way to get around it.
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"I have a lot of anger. I have a lot of rage. I have a lot of resentment. And I use it. I use it in my comedy. I use it in my writing. I use it in my life."
"I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas."
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders."
"I don't have a problem with drugs. I have a problem with people who have a problem with drugs."
American stand-up comedian whose 'Seven Words You Can't Say on Television' (1972) reached the Supreme Court and reshaped US obscenity law. Closely associated with Richard Pryor (countercultural-comedy peer) and Lenny Bruce (predecessor in obscenity-law fights). For an intellectual contrast, see Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents Music Resource Center — the PMRC's 1985 Senate hearings on 'explicit' content labeling are exactly the cultural-establishment force Carlin's free-speech comedy was organized against.
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