Charles Manson Quotes (45 Quotes)





    I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

    I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.


    When I go on the mountain and I say Do it, it gets done. And if it doesn't get done, then I move on it. And that's the last thing in the world you want from me


    From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

    Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.

    Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

    Well, were our own prisons. We each our own wardens we do our own times. We get stuck in our own little trips we kind a judge ourselves the way we do. You know, I cant judge uh, nobody else, best thing I can do is try to judge myself live with that. See, what other people do is not really my affair, unless they approach me with it, want me to do something about it, uh, then Ill uh take into consideration what has to be done. But other than that I just uh, try to do my number, do my time.


    I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

    These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

    Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me...If anyone is hypnotized, the people are hypnotized by the lies being told to them...There is no attorney in the world who can represent me as a person. I have to do it myself.

    Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.


    If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

    I told them that anything they do for their brothers and sisters is good if they do it with a good thought....

    My relationship to music is completely subliminal, it just flows through me.

    Ego is the man, the male image. Ego is the phallic symbol, the helmet, the gun. The man behind the gun, the mind behind the man behind the gun. My philosophy is that ego is the thinking mind. The mind you scheme with, make war with. They shoved all the love in the back, hid it away. Ego is like, I'm going to war with my ego stick.


    Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

    You eat meat and you kill things that are better than you are, and then you say how bad, and even killers, your children are. You made your children what they are....

    I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

    I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.

    I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.

    My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

    I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.

    How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?

    You expect to break me Impossible You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago....

    So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

    They're looking for something dirty in everything, and if you're looking for something, you'll find it. You have to put up some kind of face for them, and that's the only face they understand.

    I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.

    If I could get angry at you, I would try to kill every one of you. If that's guilt, I accept it....

    I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you.


    in a case of massive publicity Los Angeles County will necessarily always be the venue of choice since the adversities of publicity are offset by a trial being conducted in a populous metropolitan area.

    You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

    A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.


    The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.


    I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.

    You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.


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