22 quotes
As long as there's hate in your heart, there'll be hate in the world. You can't fight for peace and you cannot capture freedom.
Interview track from Charles Manson Sings (2006)
If you are gonna do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.
Interview by Diane Sawyer (1994)
Pornography? I've been looking at it all my life and it hasn't affected me anything.
during an interview with Penny Daniels (1989)
We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone else. What other people do is not really my affair unless they approach me with it. Prison's in your mind. Can't you see I'm free?
I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.
Interview on the album All the Way Alive (2003)
Money is a game. It's only real to the people who work for it. It's a monopoly game. It's a game of paper. It's all on paper.
Interview by Penny Daniels (1989)
Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress?
Interview track from Charles Manson Sings (2006)
Pain's not bad. It's good. It teaches you things. Like when you put your hand in fire: Ow! You know not to do that again.
Charles Manson's first prison interview by 60 Minutes Australia (1981)
Rubin, I am not of your world. I've spent all my life in prison. When I was a child, I was an orphan and too ugly to be adopted. Now I am too beautiful to be set free.
Jerry Rubin in recounting his visit with Manson in We Are Everywhere (1971)
Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself.
I'm a hobo a bum, a boxcar and a jug of wine, interview.
NBC interview (1987)
If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire.
Rolling Stone interview (1970)
If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing.
NBC interview (1987)
Believe me, if I started murdering people, there'd be none of you left.
NBC interview (1987)
There's nothing wrong with being incompetent. It just means you don't have to do as much.
NBC interview (1987)
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.
Rolling Stone interview (1970)
Nobody. I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine. And a straight razor if you get too close to me.
We use the word God. God hooks all the other words up. I'm the pope. I'm ten times the pope. I'm fifty times the pope. But I'm the pope in the hills and in the mountains.
Interview by Penny Daniels (1989)
They're looking for something dirty in everything, and if you're looking for something, you'll find it. You have to put up some kind of face for them, and that's the only face they understand.
Rolling Stone interview (1970)
Will of God... whatever you wanna call it... you call it Jesus, call it Mohammed, call it goobybob, call it nuclear mind, call it blow the world up, call it your heart. Whatever you wanna call it, it's still music to me. It's there. It's the will of life.
Interview by Geraldo Rivera (1981)