Manson Quotes

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. ~ Charles Manson

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point. ~ Marilyn Manson

At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at.This confines us and stifles us. We can be truly successful only at something we're willing to fail at. If we're unwilling to fail, then we're unwilling to succeed. ~ Mark Manson

People declare themselves experts, entrepreneurs, inventors, innovators, mavericks, and coaches without any real-life experience. And they do this not because they actually think they are greater than everybody else; they do it because they feel that they need to be great to be accepted in a world that broadcasts only the extraordinary. Our ~ Mark Manson

The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the studio and told us about the Manson murders. Then suddenly something happened, the '60s disappeared. The '70s were completely different. ~ Claes Oldenburg

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me. ~ John Hawkes

YOUR values determine your behavior, not what you think she wants, not what you think others want, but what is best for you and best for the relationship. ~ Mark Manson

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. ~ Charles Manson

I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without really naturally pursuing it is really astounding. It's taken me a long time to accept what I do for a living and actually feel like I have anything of value to add to the equation. ~ Shirley Manson

everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. ~ Marilyn Manson

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the way I like to look at it. ~ Marilyn Manson

Values underlie everything we are and do. If what we value is unhelpful, if what we consider success/failure is poorly chosen, then everything based upon those values - the thoughts, the emotions, the day-to-day feelings - will all be out of whack. Everything we think and feel about a situation ultimately comes back to how valuable we perceive it to be. Most ~ Mark Manson

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

No truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she's happy. She just is. ~ Mark Manson

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson. ~ Daisy Berkowitz

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state. ~ Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake. ~ Marilyn Manson

You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're so anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?
Or let's say you have an anger problem. You get pissed off at the stupidest, most inane stuff, and
you have no idea why. And the fact that you get pissed off so easily starts to piss you off even more.
And then, in your petty rage, you realize that being angry all the time makes you a shallow and mean person, and you hate this; you hate it so much that you get angry at yourself. Now look at you: you're angry at yourself getting angry about being angry. Fuck you, wall. Here, have a fist.
Or you're so worried about doing the right thing all the time that you become worried about how much you're worrying. Or you feel so guilty for every mistake you make that you begin to feel guilty about how guilty you're feeling. Or you get sad and alone so often that it makes you feel even more sad and alone just thinking about it.
..Welcome to the feedback loop from hell. ~ Mark Manson

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

There is no correct dogma or perfect ideology. There is only what your experience has shown you to be right for you - and even then, that experience is probably somewhat wrong too. And because you and I and everybody else all have differing needs and personal histories and life circumstances, we will all inevitably come to different "correct" answers about what our lives mean and how they should be lived. ~ Mark Manson

People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music. ~ Shirley Manson

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself. ~ Marilyn Manson

Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive. ~ Shirley Manson

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

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that. ~ Marilyn Manson

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress - the solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. Sometimes ~ Mark Manson

Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intangible energy that everyone can feel when an autumn moon rises and fills you with a sudden sense of bone-deep excitement, or when the first warm breeze of spring rushes past your face, full of the scents of life, and drowns you in a sudden flood of unreasoning joy. The passion of mighty music that brings tears to your eyes, and the raw, bubbling, infectious laughter of small children at play, the bellowing power of a stadium full of football fans shouting "Hey!" in time to that damned song - they're all charged with magic.

My magic comes from the same places. And maybe from darker places than that. Fear is an emotion, too. So is rage. So is lust. And madness. I'm not a particularly good person. I'm no Charles Manson or anything, but I'm not going to be up for canonization either. Though in the past, I think maybe I was a better person than I am today. In the past I hadn't seen so many people hurt and killed and terrorized by the same kind of power that damn well should have been making the world a nicer place, or at the least staying the hell away from it. I hadn't made so many mistakes back then, so many shortsighted decisions, some of which had cost people their lives. I had been sure of myself. I had been whole. ~ Jim Butcher

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things. ~ Marilyn Manson

I'm 41, I'm a woman not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music. ~ Shirley Manson

I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love not with the fight but only the victory.
And life doesn't work that way. ~ Mark Manson

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. ~ Charles Manson

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

Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant. ~ Marilyn Manson

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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

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

When our highest priority is to always make ourselves feel good, or to always make our partner feel good, then nobody ends up feeling good. And our relationship falls apart without our even knowing it. Without conflict, there can be no trust. Conflict exists to show us who is there for us unconditionally and who is just there for the benefits. No one trusts a yes-man. If Disappointment Panda were here, he'd tell you that the pain in our relationship is necessary to cement our trust in each other and produce greater intimacy. ~ Mark Manson

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old? ~ Marilyn Manson

Good evening peepers, prowlers, pederasts, panty-sniffers, punks and pimps. I'm James Ellroy, the demon dog, the foul owl with the death growl, the white knight of the far right, and the slick trick with the donkey dick. I'm the author of 16 books, masterpieces all; they precede all my future masterpieces. These books will leave you reamed, steamed and drycleaned, tie-dyed, swept to the side, true-blued, tattooed and bah fongooed. These are books for the whole fuckin' family, if the name of your family is Manson. ~ James Ellroy

Our culture today confuses great attention with great success, assuming them to be the same thing, but they are not. You are great, already. Whether you realize it or not. Whether anybody else realizes it or not. And it's not because you launched an iPhone app, or finished school a year early, or bought yourself a sweet ass boat. These things do not define greatness. You are already great because in the face of endless confusion and certain death, you continue to choose what to give a fuck about and what not to. ~ Mark Manson

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

Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another. ~ Mark Manson

I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird! ~ Karen Gillan

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery. ~ Shirley Manson

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

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind. ~ Marilyn Manson

P.s. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own. ~ Shirley Manson

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. ~ Charles Manson

I'm just here for the narcotics. ~ Marilyn Manson

Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me. ~ Marilyn Manson

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons ~ Marilyn Manson

People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off.) ~ Marilyn Manson

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

And I don't care how scientific you think you are or how many letters you have after your name, you're one of us, bucko. You're a crazy Feeling Brain-piloted meat robot just like the rest of us. ~ Mark Manson

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour. ~ Maynard James Keenan

The problem here is that most people who get caught cheating apologize and give the 'It will never happen again' spiel and that's that, as if penises fell into various orifices completely by accident. Many cheatees accept this response at face value, and don't question the values and fucks given by their partner (pun totally intended); they don't ask themselves whether those values and fucks make their partner a good person to stay with. They're so concerned with holding on to their relationship that they fail to recognize that it's become a black hole consuming their self respect.

If people cheat, it's because something other than the relationship is more important to them. It may be power over others. It may be validation through sex. It may be giving in to their own impulses. Whatever it is, it's clear that the cheater's values are not aligned in a way to support a healthy relationship. And if the cheater doesn't admit this or come to terms with it, if he just gives the old 'I don't know what I was thinking; I was stressed out and drunk and she was there' response, then he lacks the serious self-awareness necessary to solve any relationship problems. ~ Mark Manson

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves. ~ Marilyn Manson

We can be truly successful only at things we are willing to fail at. ~ Mark Manson

If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves. ~ Marilyn Manson

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person ~ Marilyn Manson

If people cheat, it's because something other than the relationship is more important to them. It may be power over others. It may be validation through sex. It may be giving in to their own impulses. ~ Mark Manson

I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived! ~ Shirley Manson

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

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one. ~ Marilyn Manson

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense. ~ Marilyn Manson

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended. ~ Marilyn Manson

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable. ~ Marilyn Manson

I feel privileged, to be honest. ~ Shirley Manson

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

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

Most of the time, I wasn't interested in inflicting pain on myself and others unless it was in a way that would make people think about the way they act, the society they live in or the things they take for granted. ~ Marilyn Manson

When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about. ~ Marilyn Manson

We`re not in Wonderland anymore, Alice. ~ Charles Manson

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn't want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth. ~ Marilyn Manson

Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a "literary salon"; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the literary to frequent it. ~ Edith Wharton

The common cultural narratives would tell me that I somehow failed myself, that I'm a quitter or a loser, that I just didn't "have it," that I gave up on my dream and that maybe I let myself succumb to the pressures of society. But the truth is far less interesting than any of these explanations. The truth is, I thought I wanted something, but it turns out I didn't. End of story. ~ Mark Manson

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic. ~ Marilyn Manson

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless. ~ Marilyn Manson

Pleasure is a false god. Research shows that people who focus their energy on superficial pleasures end up more anxious, more emotionally unstable, and more depressed. Pleasure is the most superficial form of life satisfaction and therefore the easiest to obtain and the easiest to lose. But pleasure, while necessary in life (in certain doses), isn't, by itself, sufficient. Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect. ~ Mark Manson

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. ~ Marilyn Manson

You are going to be incompatible with most ~ Mark Manson

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. ~ Shirley Manson

Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain. ~ Marilyn Manson

'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of. ~ Vincent Bugliosi

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

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

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

Happiness comes from solving problems. [...] Happiness is a constant work-in-progress. The solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems. ~ Mark Manson

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture. ~ Marilyn Manson

I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys. ~ Marilyn Manson

This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face. ~ Marilyn Manson

Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you. ~ Marilyn Manson

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism. ~ Marilyn Manson