Top 100 Quotes About Charles Manson
#1. Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
Tori Amos
#2. Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.
John Wooden
#3. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
Mike Tyson
#4. I'm not your executioner. I'm not your devil and I'm not your God. I'm Charles Manson.
Charles Manson
#5. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
Tom Morello
#6. You could be Charles Manson, or Hitler, or even a lawyer who advertises on television, and your dog will still think you're the greatest thing ever. This tells you something very important about dogs: They are not very bright.
Dave Barry
#7. It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.
Miriam Toews
#8. When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.
Ron Brackin
#9. Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
Francesca Annis
#10. I wanted to look at how people deal with death ... Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?
John Roecker
#11. I rely on my iPad for on-the-go entertainment. I stock it with TV shows, like 'Parks and Recreation' and the British version of 'The Office.' I'm reading a Charles Manson biography on it too, since I'm weirdly into true crime.
Phoebe Tonkin
#12. Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Marilyn Manson
#13. If Dan had ever wanted anything more, then I had killed that by ignoring him at Abbott's. That had been my one chance to confront him not as warring reenactors, but as two people, a girl and a boy, and I had killed it. I am the Charles Manson of relationships.
Leila Sales
#14. Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will be, without a shadow of a doubt, the single greatest film of all time about Charles Manson being the savior to all humanity in the year 3069.
John Roecker
#15. Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come to us as obvious and arrogant[ ... ]. Often it comes to us with the simple plea to be reasonable.
Derrick Jensen
#16. There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
Laura Schlessinger
#17. [Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.
Mark Steyn
#18. The only difference between the women I've dated and Charles Manson is that Manson has the decency to look like a nut case when you first meet him.
Richard Jeni
#19. You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [Charles] Manson? Have you been to that ranch?" In some way, everybody felt connected, but what was it like for people who really were connected.
Karina Longworth
#20. Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
Vincent Bugliosi
#21. I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had me in a cell next to Charles Manson; he was going to trial at the time. And it was all a row of black and brown guys and one white guy: Charles Manson.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#22. How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.
James Hillman
#23. America trembles in fear of loners, yet Charles Manson is a social butterfly.
Anneli Rufus
#24. I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
Vincent Bugliosi
#25. I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson, but it was certainly a factor. It affected him psychologically and emotionally.
Karina Longworth
#26. From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.
Marilyn Manson
#27. If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
Vincent Bugliosi
#29. Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature
screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon
the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.
John Roecker
#30. You could have Charles Manson as a father and end up a saint; you could have Mother Theresa as a mother and end up a serial killer. At the end of the day, you define the person you become. Not a strand of DNA. Not the parents you didn't get to choose. You." I
Julie Johnson
#31. That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the only people with the decency to look like a dangerous maniac the first time you meet him.
Richard Jeni
#32. I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
Vincent Bugliosi
#33. I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.
Patty Hearst
#34. All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
Leonard Cohen
#35. I think, because it's one of my favorite moments in [Charles Manson's Hollywood]. That series got a lot of attention and people talk about it a lot, but they tend to focus on the episodes that have more to do with the murder, Charles Manson doing something particularly weird, or Sharon Tate.
Karina Longworth
#36. And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent.
Nikolas Schreck
#37. I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.
George Carlin
#38. So what you're left with is: either Christ was who He said He was - the Messiah - or a complete nutcase. I mean, we're talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. - Bono on whether Jesus was Son of God was far-fetched.
Bono
#39. 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.
Charles Manson
#40. I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on.
Charles Manson
#41. 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.
Charles Manson
#44. 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!
Charles Manson
#45. If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire.
Charles Manson
#46. Let's clap our hands for the president and Jesus Christ and did I mention Charlie Manson and everybody else, who was nice.
Charles Manson
#47. 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,
Charles Manson
#49. 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
Charles Manson
#50. From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
Charles Manson
#51. If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.
Charles Manson
#52. The POLICE used to watch over the people
Now they are watching the people
Charles Manson
#53. 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.
Charles Manson
#54. I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.
Charles Manson
#55. 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!
Charles Manson
#56. I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I'll treat you right.
Charles Manson
#57. If I could get angry at you, I would try to kill every one of you. If that's guilt, I accept it.
Charles Manson
#58. I've done nothing I'm ashamed of. Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug.
Charles Manson
#59. 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.
Charles Manson
#60. 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.
Charles Manson
#61. The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.
Charles Manson
#63. My reality is my reality, and I stand within myself on my reality.
Charles Manson
#65. In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.
Charles Manson
#66. 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 ...
Charles Manson
#67. 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.
Charles Manson
#69. I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.
Charles Manson
#70. The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
Charles Manson
#72. I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.
Charles Manson
#73. Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.
Charles Manson
#74. I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.
Nikolas Schreck
#75. It used to be that being crazy meant something. Now everybody is crazy.
Charles Manson
#76. 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.
Charles Manson
#78. Believe me, if I started murdering people there'd be none of ya left.
Charles Manson
#79. 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.
Charles Manson
#80. Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?
Charles Manson
#81. There's nothing wrong with being incompetent. It just means you don't have to do as much.
Charles Manson
#82. Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.
Charles Manson
#83. 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.
Charles Manson
#84. I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.
Charles Manson
#85. 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.
Charles Manson
#86. 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.
Charles Manson
#87. 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.
Charles Manson
#90. 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?
Charles Manson
#92. 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.
Charles Manson
#94. 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.
Charles Manson
#95. 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.
Charles Manson
#96. 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.
Charles Manson
#97. 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.
Charles Manson
#98. I told them that anything they do for their brothers and sisters is good if they do it with a good thought ...
Charles Manson
#99. 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
Charles Manson
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