Charles Manson quotes:

Let's clap our hands for the president and Jesus Christ and did I mention Charlie Manson and everybody else, who was nice.

I can't 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.

We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice.

I'm not your executioner. I'm not your devil and I'm not your God. I'm Charles Manson.

The Charlie Manson that you've created, that's not me. That's only an illusion in your minds, it hasn't got anything to do with me.

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

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

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

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.

I know what I would say now and I don't lie, so I know I what I would say then. And I certainly wouldn't tell nobody to go in and do nothing to anybody that I wouldn't want done to me.

I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people.

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

My life is not important here.

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.

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.

The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it.

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, "I'm going to war with my ego stick."

Time and circumstance made me into this Manson guy, Satan. Society wanted to buy this evil, mass-murdering-devil-fiend. I'm nobody. I'm the hobo in line. Give me a bottle of wine and put me on a train. I don't fit into the world you guys live in, so I live over there in the shadows of it.

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

I loved my mother, she's a good girl.

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

How the hell did I brainwash 35 girls in less than a year? That's impossible. You're making me out to do the impossible. You don't understand you are making me a legend.

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.

Paranoid schizophrenia in the forties, there was only a few of us because they just invented those tags from some college somewhere and we were just a small group of people. But now there are many paranoid schizophrenias because all these these guys that are graduating from college that are readin' all these books, anything they can't understand is a paranoid schizophrenia.

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.

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.

I don't want parole; I'm too busy working on my web site....

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

There's been fifty-million people that died since Sharon Tate died and I got everybody in Santa Claus land chasing me, trying to make me feel remorse for one psychotic episode of (Tex) Watson.

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...

I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I'll treat you right.

Fear of vikings build castles.

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?

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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.

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.

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

You live the lifestyle you were trained and conditioned to live. I create me own lifestyle, my own world. You live in the world that was created for you. You accept the things you were taught to accept because you don't know any different. I don't accept the things I was taught. I don't accept the trees being cut down. I don't accept the water being polluted. You people accept that.

Don't treat the dogs like people. Treat the dogs like dogs. They are better than people.

We're told, everybody, that all things are bad. Bad is not good and good is not bad. Bad and good go together. You have to accept one to understand the other. You've got to accept yourself as God. You've got to realize you're just the devil just as much as you're God, that you're everything and you're nothing at all.

If you spit in my face and smack me in the mouth and throw me into solitary confinement for nothing... what do you think's gonna happen when i get out of here?

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google. Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga?

You may restrain my body and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and you can't take that. You can kill the ego, you can kill the pride, you can kill the want, the desire of a human being. You can lock him in a cell and you can knock his teeth out and smash his brain, but you cannot kill the soul. You never could kill the soul. It's always there, the beginning and the end. You cannot stop it, it's bigger than me. I'm just looking into it and it frightens me sometimes.

You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God.

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.

You know who your enemy is? You're the enemy. You sit there fat, sloppy, you watch your TV, and you kick back and you judge everybody as being wrong and bad, but you.

My philosophy is: Don't think.

People said I was a leader. Here's the kind of leader I was. I made sure toilets were clean. I made sure the animals were fed. Any sores on the horses? I'd heal them. Anything need fixing? I'd fix it. I was always the one to do everything nobody wanted to do. Cats need feeding? I'd feed them. When it was cold, I was always the last one to get a blanket.

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

To get yourself together you need not to even think there is anyone else in this world. I don't need to look down on, or get off on, or get over on. The hardest thing to overcome is our own lies, confusion and our jealousy

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

The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.

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.

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.

Death is the greatest form of love.

Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.

The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that's the end, to me it's the beginning, it's the universe in there, there's a world in there, and I'm free.

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

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.

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?

Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me...If anyone is hypnotized, the people are hypnotized by the lies being told to them...There is no attorney in the world who can represent me as a person. I have to do it myself.

In the penitentiary you learn this: don't lie. Don't lie, man. If someone catches you in a lie you leave yourself open to get snuffed. And all my life I lived in that eye of: tell the truth. Pay your debts. Don't get involved in other people's business. Do your number, do your time. And you learn to stand on your own. So, I am walking and standing on my own. People see me standing on my own and not too many people in your world can do that. And I don't realize that at that particular time. I don't realize how weak and mindless you people are.

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

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

I am the man in the mirror, anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free. I am just a mirror.

Each night as you sleep I destroy the world.

I don't know what 'my way' is. Everybody keeps telling me I got all these things. I read the other day where I had magical powers. I told everybody in the chapel 'zap, zap, zap, zap!' I said 'Where's my magical powers at?' Well, you can't believe what you read in the press. I ain't got no magical powers or mystical trips or anything like that. It's kind of silly.

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

Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy.

I didn't tie anybody up. And I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I think the law says you can only keep me seventeen or eighteen years if I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I was never on the crime scenes. I didn't kill nobody, I didn't tell nobody to get killed. I didn't get no trial, but we don't wanna hear that- don't wanna mix anything up with the truth.

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.

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

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

Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn't break no law.

What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add.

I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.

You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want to blame somebody else for it. And you got to dig up some poor-ass idiot that don't have the brain of a retarded spastican and make him a cult leader!

The POLICE used to watch over the people Now they are watching the people

I'm the paté on the Universal cracker. I'm the grout holding your shower tiles on. I'm out of the saddle, sprinting up that hill and eating glazed donut bracelets off the right arm of Jesus.

I have X'd myself from your world.

Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

Good for some may not be the same for others.

If I haven't seen it, it's new to me.

If we don't wake up to that, there's going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we're doing bad things to the atmosphere,

Animals shouldnâ??t be hunted and nature shouldnâ??t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

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.

All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn't listen and now I can't hear you.

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.

I play music. People are affected by the music I play. That doesn't mean I direct traffic! That doesn't mean I put a knife in anybody's hand and tell 'em to go kill somebody!

You know what they're doing to your Constitution? They're making a joke out of your Constitution. Love's not in your court room. And God is not in your heart.

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

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

I'd probably try to stop the rain forests from being cut down. I'd probably join the revolution down south somewhere and try to save my life on the planet Earth. I might go to Libya. I might go see the Ayatollah. I might go to France, catch somebody in France I'm upset with.

How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?

The way out of a room is not through the door. Just don't want out. And you're free...

There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.

Most of the people at the ranch were just people you did not want, people that were alongside the road.

No sense makes sense.

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.

In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.

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.

Now I am too beautiful to be set free.

It used to be that being crazy meant something. Now everybody is crazy.

I've done nothing I'm ashamed of. Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug.

Air is God, because without air we do not exist

I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on.

I am not in jail. There is no jail.

I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something....

If it wasn't for the publicity, I would've been out of here and gone a long time ago.

I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.

Most of the attorneys just want the publicity of the trial. They don't care about the man at all. If there was some kind of writ that could get me out of here tomorrow, they wouldn't bring it, because they all want to go through the whole trial and wring every last drop of publicity out of the whole thing.