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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.

— Charles Manson Interview by Penny Daniels (1989)

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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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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

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