Quotes from Charles Manson

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

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

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

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I punched my mother out once.

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

I'm not of this generation.

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

We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.