Quotes by Charles Manson

“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”

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybodys crazy.”

“You eat meat and you kill things that are better than you are, and then you say how bad, and even killers, your children are. You made your children what they are....”

“These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didnt teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.”

“Im not your executioner. Im not your devil and Im not your God. Im Charles Manson.”

“You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago....”

“I cant judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”

“Believe me, if I started murdering people… thered be none of you left!”

“I cant dislike you, but I will say this to you: you havent got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me ... but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.”

“Were not in Wonderland anymore Alice.”

“The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.”

“Ego is the man, the male image. Ego is the phallic symbol, the helmet, the gun. The man behind the gun, the mind behind the man behind the gun. My philosophy is that ego is the thinking mind. The mind you scheme with, make war with. They shoved all the love in the back, hid it away. Ego is like, Im going to war with my ego stick.”

“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”

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

“Well, we’re our own prisons. We each our own wardens & we do our own times. We get stuck in our own little trips & we kind a judge ourselves the way we do. You know, I can’t judge uh, nobody else, best thing I can do is try to judge myself & live with that. See, what other people do is not really my affair, unless they approach me with it, & want me to do something about it, uh, then I’ll uh take into consideration what has to be done. But other than that I just uh, try to do my number, & do my time.”

“Theyre looking for something dirty in everything, and if youre looking for something, youll find it. You have to put up some kind of face for them, and thats the only face they understand.”

“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.”

“You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.”

“I have Xd myself from your world.”

“My relationship to music is completely subliminal, it just flows through me.”