Quotes By Charles Manson

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

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

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

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't 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.

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

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

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.

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

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

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

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

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.

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

I punched my mother out once.

I'm not of this generation.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

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

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.

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

Did I kill anyone?

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

We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice.

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

I have X'd myself from your world.

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