Manson Charles Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Charles Manson

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either. — Mike Tyson

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy. — Charles Manson

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything. — Charles Manson

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

I have ate out of your garbage cans to stay out of jail. I have wore your second-hand clothes ... I have done my best to get along in your world and now you want to kill me, and I look at you, and then I say to myself, You want to kill me? Ha! I'm already dead, have been all my life. I've spent twenty-three years in tombs that you built. — Charles Manson

Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.' — Marilyn Manson

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. — Charles Manson

We're not in Wonderland anymore, Alice. — Charles Manson

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

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

I am not in jail. There is no jail. — Charles Manson

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

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

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

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

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

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? — Charles Manson

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. — Charles Manson

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

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

I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I'll treat you right. — Charles Manson

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

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. — Leonard Cohen

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

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. — Charles Manson

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Charles Manson

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

There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson. — Laura Schlessinger

I have X'd myself from your world. — Charles Manson

Here's the thing about birthdays. Your dad didn't pull out. You didn't do shit. You didn't earn anything. I'll tell you who else has or had birthday celebrations each year: Charles Manson, Jim Jones, Osama bin Laden, Pol Pot, Jeremy Piven, and Ted Bundy. All the people you hate in life, all the pedophiles, all the murderers, all the IRS auditors have birthdays. I don't think we should celebrate Idi Amin's birthday and I don't think we should celebrate yours either. — Adam Carolla

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love. — Charles Manson

Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to. — Marianne Williamson

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

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

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. — Charles Manson

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. — Charles Manson

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

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

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

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

Most of the attorneys just want the publicity of the trial. They don't care about the man at all. If there was some kind of writ that could get me out of here tomorrow, they wouldn't bring it, because they all want to go through the whole trial and wring every last drop of publicity out of the whole thing. — Charles Manson

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. — Marilyn 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

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! — Andrew Gross

Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream. — Tori Amos

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. — Charles Manson

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

Air is God, because without air we do not exist — Charles Manson

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

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. — Charles Manson

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. — Charles Manson

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

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

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

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

Death is the greatest form of love. — Charles Manson

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

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

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

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

You can take a pile of rocks and use them to build a house, or you can take the same pile and start a war. Tell children not to throw rocks, make rules against picking up rocks, and then make them mad. Keep projecting what not to do and you make the thought in their brains of what can and will be done. — Charles Manson

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

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

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. — Charles Manson

We're told, everybody, that all things are bad. Bad is not good and good is not bad. Bad and good go together. You have to accept one to understand the other. You've got to accept yourself as God. You've got to realize you're just the devil just as much as you're God, that you're everything and you're nothing at all. — Charles Manson

You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (it occurs in a passage of perfectly demented detail about the exact rules governing mutual ox-goring; you should look it up in its context (Exodus 21). The second is from the Gospels and says that only those without sin should cast the first stone. The first is a moral basis for capital punishment and other barbarities; the second is so relativistic and "nonjudgmental" that it would not allow the prosecution of Charles Manson. Our few notions of justice have had to evolve despite these absurd codes of ultra vindictiveness and ultracompassion. — Christopher Hitchens

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

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

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. — Charles Manson

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

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal. — Charles Manson

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

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. — Charles Manson

They're just the little people. Unknown all their lives and forgotten as soon as they die. If anyone talks about them, they're simply called the victim. But the killers, that's something else! They don't work or pay taxes or obey the law or live quiet lives of frustration. That's not news. Instead they kill. That makes them special. Charles Manson will be remembered and written about a hundred years from now, just as Jack the Ripper is remembered a hundred years after his crimes. Everybody wants a little recognition. More things are done for sheer recognition than for money or sex, as far as I can see. But the only ones who get it are the killers. Who knows all the names of Manson's victims? Or Jack the Ripper's victims? Or Charles Starkweather's victims? Or Caryl Chessman's victims? Who cares? They were just people. — Shane Stevens

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

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

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

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? — Charles Manson

Total paranoia is just total awareness. — Charles Manson

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

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

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

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy. — Mark Steyn

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

He wasn't just a psychopath, he was an asshole. Who cares why anyone wanted to listen to him? — Alison Umminger

Paranoid schizophrenia in the forties, there was only a few of us because they just invented those tags from some college somewhere and we were just a small group of people. But now there are many paranoid schizophrenias because all these these guys that are graduating from college that are readin' all these books, anything they can't understand is a paranoid schizophrenia. — Charles Manson

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

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

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. — Charles Manson