Charles Manson Quotes

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

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

I'm not your executioner. I'm not your devil and I'm not your God. I'm Charles Manson.

There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.

My philosophy is: Don't think.

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

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.

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.

You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God.

You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn't question it.

Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy.

I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on.

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?

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.

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.

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

It used to be that being crazy meant something. Now everybody is crazy.

I loved my mother, she's a good girl.

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

You may restrain my body and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and you can't take that. You can kill the ego, you can kill the pride, you can kill the want, the desire of a human being. You can lock him in a cell and you can knock his teeth out and smash his brain, but you cannot kill the soul. You never could kill the soul. It's always there, the beginning and the end. You cannot stop it, it's bigger than me. I'm just looking into it and it frightens me sometimes.

Death is peace from this world's madness and paradise in my own self. Death as I lay in my grave of constant vibration, endless now

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prison is a frame of thought, we're all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison is in your mind, can't you see I'm free?

Animals shouldn't be hunted and nature shouldn't be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

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.

I'm not very wise to many things.

If it wasn't for the publicity, I would've been out of here and gone a long time ago.

it seems a shame to have to sneak to get to the truth.To make the truth such a dirty old nasty thing.You gotta sneak to get to the truth, the truth is condemned.The truth is in the gas chamber.The truth has been in your stockyards.Your slaughterhouses.The truth has been in your reservations, building your railroads, emtying your garbage.The truth is in your ghettos.In your jails.In your young love,not in your courts or congress where the old set judgement on the young.What the hell do the old know about the young?They put a picture of old George on the dollar and tell you that he's your father, worship him.Look at the madness that goes on, you can't prove anything that happened yesterday.Now is the only thing that's real.Everyday, every reality is a new reality.Every new reality is a new horizon,a brand new experience of living.I got a note last night from a friend of mine.He writes in this note that he's afraid of what he might have to do in order to save his reality, as i save mine.You can't prove anything.There's nothing to prove.Every man judges himself.He knows what he is. You know what you are, as i know what i am,we all know what we are.Nobody can stand in judgement, they can play like they're standing in judgement.They can play like they stand in judgement and take you off and control the masses, with your human body.They can lock you up in penitentiaries and cages and put you in crosses like they did in the past,but it doesn't amount to anything. What they're doing i

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.

I don't want parole; I'm too busy working on my web site ...

I am not in jail. There is no jail.

I've done nothing I'm ashamed of. Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug.

Don't treat the dogs like people. Treat the dogs like dogs. They are better than people.

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.

I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care.

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.

We`re not in Wonderland anymore, Alice.

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

I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.

In the penitentiary you learn this: don't lie. Don't lie, man. If someone catches you in a lie you leave yourself open to get snuffed. And all my life I lived in that eye of: tell the truth. Pay your debts. Don't get involved in other people's business. Do your number, do your time. And you learn to stand on your own. So, I am walking and standing on my own. People see me standing on my own and not too many people in your world can do that. And I don't realize that at that particular time. I don't realize how weak and mindless you people are.

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

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.

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.

You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything that you think you know, everything that you have been taught.

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

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

If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire.

If I wanted anyone killed, I'd kill them myself. But I don't want anyone killed because I love my own life. Does that make any sense? I love life and I love living, but no, I don't want to live in society. Society don't want me, why should I want them? I don't belong in society and there's no place in society that I fit.

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 ...

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

Good for some may not be the same for others.

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.

People said I was a leader. Here's the kind of leader I was. I made sure toilets were clean. I made sure the animals were fed. Any sores on the horses? I'd heal them. Anything need fixing? I'd fix it. I was always the one to do everything nobody wanted to do. Cats need feeding? I'd feed them. When it was cold, I was always the last one to get a blanket.

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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?

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.

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

Maybe I should have killed four, five hundred people. Then I would have felt better. Then I would have felt like I really offered society something.

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!

The POLICE used to watch over the people
Now they are watching the people

My reality is my reality, and I stand within myself on my reality.

Believe me, if I started murdering people there'd be none of ya left.

I've been 15 years in the nut ward, for trying to stop the trees from being cut down, from trying to rearrange the lifestyle of a bunch of people who don't want to change. But they're gonna change because a cold wind is blowing. You're gonna change or else there's going to be no life left on the planet Earth.

I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something ...

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.

The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.

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

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

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?

I don't know what 'my way' is. Everybody keeps telling me I got all these things. I read the other day where I had magical powers. I told everybody in the chapel 'zap, zap, zap, zap!' I said 'Where's my magical powers at?' Well, you can't believe what you read in the press. I ain't got no magical powers or mystical trips or anything like that. It's kind of silly.

I didn't tie anybody up. And I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I think the law says you can only keep me seventeen or eighteen years if I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I was never on the crime scenes. I didn't kill nobody, I didn't tell nobody to get killed. I didn't get no trial, but we don't wanna hear that- don't wanna mix anything up with the truth.

I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards

Air is God, because without air we do not exist

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.

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.

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.

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

If I haven't seen it, it's new to me.

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.