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Famous Manson Quotes…
The Words of Charles Manson…
Charles Manson en route to court showing a swastika on his head. During the trial, Manson carved an X on his forehead, showing he was “X”ed out of society. The X was gradually modified until it turned into a swastika.
“You made your children what they are…. 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…. You can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you. My father is your system…. I am only what you made me. I am a reflection of you.
— Charles MansonDid I kill anyone?
— Charles MansonFrom the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
— Charles MansonGetting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.
— Charles MansonHow old am I? I’m as old as my mother told me. How’s that?
— Charles MansonI ain’t got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It’s kind of silly.
— Charles MansonI 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.
— Charles MansonDeath is the greatest form of love.
— Charles MansonI 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.
— Charles MansonI have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.
— Charles MansonI have X’d myself from your world.
— Charles MansonI loved my mother, she’s a good girl.
— Charles MansonI never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.
— Charles MansonI never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.
— Charles MansonI punched my mother out once.
— Charles MansonI was a beatnik in the ’50s before the hippies came along.
— Charles MansonI will have you removed if you don’t stop. I have a little system of my own.
— Charles MansonI’m not of this generation.
— Charles MansonI’m not very wise to many things.
— Charles MansonI’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.
— Charles MansonIf you’re going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.
— Charles MansonJust because you’re convicted in a court room doesn’t mean you’re guilty of something.
— Charles MansonLiving is what scares me. Dying is easy.
— Charles MansonMy father is the jailhouse. My father is your system… I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
— Charles MansonMy life is not important here.
— Charles MansonNo sense makes sense.
— Charles MansonPain’s not bad, it’s good. It teaches you things. I understand that.
— Charles MansonRemorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn’t that give me equal right?
— Charles MansonI may not be a decent person, but I respect decent people. If somebody is afraid of Charles Manson, they’re afraid of the newspapers that created Charles Manson. Does that mean that I have to spend the rest of my life in prison because the public is afraid? I’m just doing my number, doing the best I can for each day because I live for this day.
— Charles MansonMr. and Mrs. America–you are wrong. I am not the King of the Jews nor am I a hippie cult leader. I am what you have made me and the mad dog devil killer fiend leper is a reflection of your society. . .Whatever the outcome of this madness that you call a fair trial or Christian justice, you can know this: In my mind’s eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.
— Charles Manson
