Charles Manson Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...

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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?

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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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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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