Charles Manson Quotes

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

Charles Manson
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
So how do communicate to a whole group of people? You stand up and take the worst fear symbol [swastika] and say "There, now I've got your fear. Now I've got your fear." And your fear is your power and your power is your control. I'm your king of this whole planet. I'm gonna rule this whole world.

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Rubin, I am not of your world. I've spent all my life in prison. When I was a child I was an orphan and too ugly to be adopted. Now I am too beautiful to be set free.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Have you ever seen the coyote in the desert? Watching, tuned in, completely aware. Christ on the cross, the coyote in the desert — it's the same thing, man. The coyote is beautiful. He moves through the desert delicately, aware of everything, looking around. He hears every sound, smells every smell, sees everything that moves. He's in a state of total paranoia, and total paranoia is total awareness.

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

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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.

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To save the people from themselves it would take a greater fear than the earth has ever seen.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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They are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them.

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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]

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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.

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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.

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