Charles Manson quotes

Charles Manson was an American criminal and cult leader, notorious for orchestrating a series of brutal murders in the late 1960s. His followers, known as the "Manson Family," carried out the crimes under his influence. He became a symbol of evil and the dark side of the counterculture era. Here are 59 of his quotes:

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)
They're looking for something dirty in everything, and if you're looking for something, you'll find it. You have to put up some kind of face for them, and that's the only face they understand. View quote
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You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You expect to break me Impossible You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago.... View quote
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I have X'd myself from your world. View quote
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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? View quote
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I lived in Hollywood and I had all that, the Rolls Royce and the Ferrari and the pad in Beverly Hills. I had the surf board and the Beach Boys and the bishkis and the Neil Diamond and the ramskam and the Jimmy shriffen [ph. ] and the Elvis Presley's best of bestlies and all them guys. The Dean and Martins and the Nancy Sinatras and the cops and sovereigns, "Will you do it to me? I hear you do it good honey" and all that kind of "Will you come up to my house later?" So I went through all that and I seen that was a bigger prison than the one I just got out of and I really didn't care to go back in prison. See, prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. Prison is in the mind. It's locked in one world that's dead and dying, or it's open to a world that's free and alive. (Charles Manson)
Will of God... whatever you wanna call it... you call it Jesus, call it Mohammed, call it goobybob, call it nuclear mind, call it blow the world up, call it your heart. Whatever you wanna call it, it's still music to me. It's there. It's the will of life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? View quote
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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. View quote
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I've never killed anyone. I don't need to kill anyone. I think it. I have it here. [points to head]. View quote
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We use the word God. God hooks all the other words up. I'm the pope. I'm ten times the pope. I'm fifty times the pope. But I'm the pope in the hills and in the mountains. View quote
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Money is a game. It's only real to the people who work for it. It's a monopoly game. It's a game of paper. It's all on paper. View quote
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Changed? I was a changed man when i got out last time, I learned ... I learned ... I learned my lesson well ... View quote
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I see blood in here every day, every day someone's getting shot, someone's getting cut, someone's getting beat ... i've lived in that all my life woman, that don't wrinkle up my forehead ... you can pile 100 dead bodies up in front of my cell and it don't set me to do nothing ... View quote
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Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that. (Charles Manson)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Who do you think I am, girl? If you could pick all the words of the vocabulary that your mother taught you, who do you think I am? And this is only a couple hours, can you imagine what it would be like a couple days with me? I live a hundred years a day. View quote
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If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire. View quote
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Charles Manson

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Occupation: American Criminal
Born: November 12, 1934
Died: November 19, 2017
Quotes count: 59
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