Charles Manson Quotes

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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
There's nothing wrong with being incompetent.… It just means you don't have to do as much.

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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?

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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
We use the word God. God hooks all the other words up. I'm the pope. I'm ten times the pope. I'm sixty times the pope. But I'm the pope in the hills and in the mountains.

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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.

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

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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.

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

Charles Manson
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