Quotes from Marilyn Manson

morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [...] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn't want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live.

People don't keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don't want to tell but they want everyone to know.

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.

Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be

extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality

hello world and hello universe. Thank you all very much

Books are good because they are thick and you can hit someone with it.

I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people

The key to changing the way people think is to change what's popular. That's why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it—and then overcome it.

Art to me is a question mark.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

I never really hated one true god But the god of all the people I hated

There's no time to discriminate, hate every motherfucker that's in your way.

Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar

I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with hail Satan, but I couldn't bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.

the fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist." greasy fist." - Marilyn Manson

People don't necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly.

Art should never be an answer but a question.

I`ve always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you`re not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.

We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your attention. Then, once you've got their attention, you can say something they might remember