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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.

— Charles Manson NBC interview (1987)

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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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