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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.

— Charles Manson Rolling Stone interview (1970)

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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)

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