Quotes from Marilyn Manson

Everybody's someone else's nigger I know you are so am I I wasn't born with enough middle fingers I don't need to chose a side

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.

Most of the time, I wasn't interested in inflicting pain on myself and others unless it was in a way that would make people think about the way they act, the society they live in or the things they take for granted.

My weaknesses had become my strengths, my ugliness had become beauty, my apathy to the world had become a desire to save it.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

I'm not a slave to a God that doesn't exist, and I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit.

Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that wil shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.

I've said a million times that if more stupid people killed themselves over stupid songs, there would be less stupid people in the world.

It wasn`t very useful preparation for the real world: turning all these graduates loose every year with the expectation that life will be fair and everyone will be treated equally.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.

Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

yet. I'm starting to think that if the Internet is the CB radio of the nineties, then the home computer is the trailer park of the soul, a dangerous tool in the hands of idiots. Eventually self-imposed fascism will destroy man as he convinces himself he doesn't have to think anymore. SEPTEMBER

La bestia de la cual vivían atemorizados era en realidad ellos mismos: Era el hombre, no algún demonio mitológico, quien a final iba a destruir al hombre. Y esta bestia había sido creada de su miedo.

Si cada cigarro que fumas te quita siete minutos de tu vida, cada juego de Dungeons & Dragons que juegas retrasa la pérdida de tu virginidad siete horas.

The mind is the greatest bomb. - The Lamb of God (essay)

We were totally high and we had Quiet Riot play at our after-show party at the Dragonfly. I think we reunited them, just like we did W.A.S.P. We take sole responsibility for the return of retro heavy metal, and I'm ashamed. But

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one.

America loves to find an icon to hang its guilt on. But, admittedly, I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality, and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain.

So we began having a long, in-depth meeting inspired by the fruity drug to create a fruit-filled experience called Fruity, which will probably never happen because I don't know where I put those pills.

Then we dared Pogo to cut his wrist with a knife, which he did several times.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.