Charles Manson Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

All this occult and that hocus pocus stuff that you guys are playing, I don't nothing about all that.

Did I kill anyone?

Did we have the castle there with the vampires and the Frankenstein, and the bugs and lizards dying in the desert?

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

Get out of here? Where would I go now, see.

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

Good for some may not be the same for others.

He's a Flying Tiger man, from Madam Shanghai's Shack. I just wrote him a letter today.

Here I am an old man sitting in this cell, that's the damndest thing I ever seen, you know.

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

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

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.

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 come out and sit down. I ain't gonna get whipped again.

I cut a route through Acapulco, and I smoked Acapulco before you knew what it was.

I did good in uh, every place that I was ever told to go good in.

I didn't want to scare you guys out of the neighborhood right away.

I don't want to hit you. I, uh, got out of prison and I went up in the streams and I saw a big fat dead rat laying in the water.

I feel pretty good. Take me back to the old river.

I got a sleeping bag and a guitar and I'm standing at old blind man's ranch and that's about the extent of it.

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

I have X'd myself from your world.

I just chew on my pipe and think about it and do the best I can.

I lived in the tombs and I was in the Cook County Jail in Chicago when you were playing cricket in high school.

I love the world I live in too just like Reagan loves the world he lives in.

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

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

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

I punched my mother out once.

I said I can't handle the maniacs outside, let me back in.

I understand jail so I understand myself so I can deal with that.

I used to have to lay down and get my ass whipped till I couldn't walk. Tell me about some pain. Yeah.

I used to love that desert, out in the woods and things. I didn't know you could get out in the woods for 30 years.

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

I was borned illegitimately, that put me on the other side of the law.

I was playing with some Hell's Angels that you don't know nothing about.

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

I'm a reflection of your negative, there's no doubt about that.

I'm an outlaw and I go so far and then that's all you know.

I'm not gonna grow up, I'm not gonna go to college.

I'm not of this generation.

I'm not very wise to many things.

I'm playing for my life. You're working for money.

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'm stupid to the point where I'm not really sure.

I'm your brother, Beausoleil, Beausoleil. I just got out of prison.

I've been up and down these damn hallways, in and out of these nut wards for the last 10 years. You think you can follow that act?

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

If you're thinking exposure to danger, then that danger you're thinking is coming around you.

It's a comedy tragedy, uh opera that was played in the, uh, early morning.

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

Let's go back to that word innocent. Are you so white and pure?

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

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

My life is not important here.

No sense makes sense.

No, I don't think the drugs have hurt me. If I overdone it I think it would.

Over a period of about 20 years, I would imagine you'd want to change something.

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

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

Same question again. Did I break the law? Is that your question?

See, like you live in another world. I live in street people's world.

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

Tex took the witness stand, and this is record. Tex didn't have his own mind one way or the other.

That's make believe to the people that went in there and did what they did.

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

There's different colors on different people's backs doing different things. It's a different world.

There's only one person you should be a-scared of and that's yourself. Afraid of what, losing your bank account?

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.

We used to have some cosmic gatherings back in the mountains that would probably shake a Mormon Tabernacle Choir's eardrums.

We'll be here for a thousand years unless you let me finish.

We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice.

Word is, you're an old woman. Word is, you have turkey in the sky. I don't know what word is.

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.

You dealt the hand down there in LA. You and that press, you and that, uh, LA Times.

You got a pistol on you? I just thought you might not like what I have done and want to do something about it.

You guys are misinformed. I haven't killed anyone.

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

You put me on Life Magazine and had me convicted before I walked into the court room.