Charles Manson Quotes

#1. Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress? - Author: Charles Manson

#2. I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly. - Author: Charles Manson

#3. Why couldn't we put on a defense? I had seventeen witnesses standing outside the door. They just dropped the defense and went on to the penalty phase. Like everything was cut and dry before it went off to martini land. - Author: Charles Manson

#4. How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that? - Author: Charles Manson

#5. If I haven't seen it, it's new to me. - Author: Charles Manson

#6. I'd probably try to stop the rain forests from being cut down.
I'd probably join the revolution down south somewhere and try to save my life on the planet Earth.
I might go to Libya. I might go see the Ayatollah. I might go to France, catch somebody in France I'm upset with. - Author: Charles Manson

#7. The way out of a room is not through the door. Just don't want out. And you're free ... - Author: Charles Manson

#8. If it wasn't for the publicity, I would've been out of here and gone a long time ago. - Author: Charles Manson

#9. Most of the people at the ranch were just people you did not want, people that were alongside the road. - Author: Charles Manson

#10. You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn't question it. - Author: Charles Manson

#11. I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care. - Author: Charles Manson

#12. I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed. - Author: Charles Manson

#13. If you spit in my face and smack me in the mouth and throw me into solitary confinement for nothing ... what do you think's gonna happen when i get out of here? - Author: Charles Manson

#14. To save the people from themselves it would take a greater fear than the earth has ever seen. - Author: Charles Manson

#15. You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy. - Author: Charles Manson

#16. Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn't break no law. - Author: Charles Manson

#17. Now I am too beautiful to be set free. - Author: Charles Manson

#18. The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it. - Author: Charles Manson

#19. 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. - Author: Charles Manson

#20. You see, you can send me to the penitentiary, it's not a big thing. I've been there all my life anyway. What about your children? These are just a few, there is many, many more coming right at you. - Author: Charles Manson

#21. Don't treat the dogs like people. Treat the dogs like dogs. They are better than people. - Author: Charles Manson

#22. I'm not very wise to many things. - Author: Charles Manson

#23. I'm nobody
I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo
I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine
And a straight razor ... if you get too close to me - Author: Charles Manson

#24. Look down at me and you see a fool,
Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself. - Author: Charles Manson

#25. There's been fifty-million people that died since Sharon Tate died and I got everybody in Santa Claus land chasing me, trying to make me feel remorse for one psychotic episode of (Tex) Watson. - Author: Charles Manson

#26. No sense makes sense. - Author: Charles Manson

#27. All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn't listen and now I can't hear you. - Author: Charles Manson

#28. I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted. - Author: Charles Manson

#29. As long as there's hate in your heart, there'll be hate in the world. You can't fight for peace and you cannot capture freedom. - Author: Charles Manson

#30. Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy. - Author: Charles Manson

#31. I don't want parole; I'm too busy working on my web site ... - Author: Charles Manson

#32. You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God. - Author: Charles Manson

#33. I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something ... - Author: Charles Manson

#34. The Charlie Manson that you've created, that's not me. That's only an illusion in your minds, it hasn't got anything to do with me. - Author: Charles Manson

#35. Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something. - Author: Charles Manson

#36. You know who your enemy is? You're the enemy. You sit there fat, sloppy, you watch your TV, and you kick back and you judge everybody as being wrong and bad, but you. - Author: Charles Manson

#37. Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love. - Author: Charles Manson

#38. Total paranoia is just total awareness. - Author: Charles Manson

#39. I know what I would say now and I don't lie, so I know I what I would say then. And I certainly wouldn't tell nobody to go in and do nothing to anybody that I wouldn't want done to me. - Author: Charles Manson

#40. All the men in the joint raised me up, told me what to do, what was right and wrong, told me when to sit down,
when to stand up, I just did whatever I was told. - Author: Charles Manson

#41. Living is what scares me. Dying is easy. - Author: Charles Manson

#42. I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along. - Author: Charles Manson

#43. Are you hep to what the Beatles are saying? ... Dig it, they're telling it like it is. They know what's happening in the city; blackie is getting ready. They put the revolution to music ... it's 'Helter-Skelter.' Helter-Skelter is coming down. - Author: Charles Manson

#44. 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. - Author: Charles Manson

#45. You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, 'These are what the words mean.' Well, this is what they mean to you, but to someone else, they have got a different dictionary. - Author: Charles Manson

#46. 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. - Author: Charles Manson

#47. You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything that you think you know, everything that you have been taught. - Author: Charles Manson

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

#49. You know what they're doing to your Constitution? They're making a joke out of your Constitution. Love's not in your court room. And God is not in your heart. - Author: Charles Manson

#50. My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system ... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you. - Author: Charles Manson

#51. The POLICE used to watch over the people
Now they are watching the people - Author: Charles Manson

#52. My life is not important here. - Author: Charles Manson

#53. My reality is my reality, and I stand within myself on my reality. - Author: Charles Manson

#54. We're not in Wonderland anymore, Alice. - Author: Charles Manson

#55. The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison. - Author: Charles Manson

#56. I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people. - Author: Charles Manson

#57. 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. - Author: Charles Manson

#58. I've done nothing I'm ashamed of. Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug. - Author: Charles Manson

#59. If I could get angry at you, I would try to kill every one of you. If that's guilt, I accept it. - Author: Charles Manson

#60. I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I'll treat you right. - Author: Charles Manson

#61. I play music. People are affected by the music I play. That doesn't mean I direct traffic! That doesn't mean I put a knife in anybody's hand and tell 'em to go kill somebody! - Author: Charles Manson

#62. I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law. - Author: Charles Manson

#63. We use the word God. God hooks all the other words up. I'm the pope. I'm ten times the pope. I'm sixty times the pope. But I'm the pope in the hills and in the mountains. - Author: Charles Manson

#64. In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities. - Author: Charles Manson

#65. If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy. - Author: Charles Manson

#66. From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. - Author: Charles Manson

#67. To get yourself together you need not to even think there is anyone else in this world. I don't need to look down on, or get off on, or get over on. The hardest thing to overcome is our own lies, confusion and our jealousy - Author: Charles Manson

#68. I have X'd myself from your world. - Author: Charles Manson

#69. If we don't wake up to that, there's going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we're doing bad things to the atmosphere, - Author: Charles Manson

#70. Let's clap our hands for the president and Jesus Christ and did I mention Charlie Manson and everybody else, who was nice. - Author: Charles Manson

#71. If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire. - Author: Charles Manson

#72. You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want to blame somebody else for it. And you got to dig up some poor-ass idiot that don't have the brain of a retarded spastican and make him a cult leader! - Author: Charles Manson

#73. Death is the greatest form of love. - Author: Charles Manson

#74. You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on. - Author: Charles Manson

#75. I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on. - Author: Charles Manson

#76. How the hell did I brainwash 35 girls in less than a year? That's impossible. You're making me out to do the impossible. You don't understand you are making me a legend. - Author: Charles Manson

#77. I loved my mother, she's a good girl. - Author: Charles Manson

#78. The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that's the end, to me it's the beginning, it's the universe in there, there's a world in there, and I'm free. - Author: Charles Manson

#79. I am not in jail. There is no jail. - Author: Charles Manson

#80. We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone else. What other people do is not really my affair unless they approach me with it. Prison's in your mind. Can't you see I'm free? - Author: Charles Manson

#81. Air is God, because without air we do not exist - Author: Charles Manson

#82. The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing. - Author: Charles Manson

#83. Anything you see in me is in you. If you want to see a vicious killer, that's who you'll see, do you understand that? If you see me as your brother, that's what I'll be. It all depends on how much love you have. I am you, and when you can admit that, you will be free. I am just a mirror. - Author: Charles Manson

#84. 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. - Author: Charles Manson

#85. I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal. - Author: Charles Manson

#86. If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing. - Author: Charles Manson

#87. Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard. - Author: Charles Manson

#88. Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? - Author: Charles Manson

#89. What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add. - Author: Charles Manson

#90. Believe me, if I started murdering people there'd be none of ya left. - Author: Charles Manson

#91. You eat meat with your teeth and you kill things that are better than you are, and in the same respect you say how bad and even killers that your children are. You make your children what they are. - Author: Charles Manson

#92. It used to be that being crazy meant something. Now everybody is crazy. - Author: Charles Manson

#93. Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that. - Author: Charles Manson

#94. I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast. - Author: Charles Manson

#95. Good for some may not be the same for others. - Author: Charles Manson

#96. The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies. - Author: Charles Manson

#97. I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own. - Author: Charles Manson

#98. My philosophy is: Don't think. - Author: Charles Manson

#99. Time and circumstance made me into this Manson guy, Satan. Society wanted to buy this evil, mass-murdering-devil-fiend. I'm nobody. I'm the hobo in line. Give me a bottle of wine and put me on a train. I don't fit into the world you guys live in, so I live over there in the shadows of it. - Author: Charles Manson

#100. In fact, it makes me mad when someone kills snakes or dogs or cats or horses. I don't even like to eat meat - that is how much I am against killing ... - Author: Charles Manson