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

Fear of vikings build castles.

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

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

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

Good for some may not be the same for others.

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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.

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

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

We're not in Wonderland anymore, Alice.

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

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

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

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

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

Air is God, because without air we do not exist

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

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

My life is not important here.

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.

I have X'd myself from your world.

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

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

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.

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

Death is the greatest form of love.

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

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

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

My philosophy is: Don't think.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am not in jail. There is no jail.

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

I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care.

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

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

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.

Now I am too beautiful to be set free.

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

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

You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn't question it.

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

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

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.

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.

No sense makes sense.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Each night as you sleep I destroy the world.