Charles Manson citáty

„Podívejte se na mě a uvidíte blázna; podívejte se na mě a uvidíte boha; podívejte se na mě přímo a uvidíte sebe.“

—  Charles Manson

„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.“

—  Charles Manson

As quoted in 101 People You Won't Meet in Heaven: The Twisted Achievements of the Most Brutal and Sadistic Individuals the World Has Ever Known (2007) by Michael Powell, p. 148

„Have you ever seen the coyote in the desert? Watching, tuned in, completely aware. Christ on the cross, the coyote in the desert — it’s the same thing, man. The coyote is beautiful. He moves through the desert delicately, aware of everything, looking around. He hears every sound, smells every smell, sees everything that moves. He’s in a state of total paranoia, and total paranoia is total awareness.“

—  Charles Manson

Rolling Stone interview (June 1970)

„The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.“

—  Charles Manson

„So how do communicate to a whole group of people? You stand up and take the worst fear symbol [swastika] and say "There, now I've got your fear. Now I've got your fear." And your fear is your power and your power is your control. I'm your king of this whole planet. I'm gonna rule this whole world.“

—  Charles Manson

Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHq2aN9tYE by Penny Daniels (1989)

„There's nothing wrong with being incompetent.… It just means you don't have to do as much.“

—  Charles Manson

NBC interview (1987)

„I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.“

—  Charles Manson

Interview on the album All the Way Alive (2003)

„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?“

—  Charles Manson

Interview track from Charles Manson Sings (2006)

„I 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 Manson

„I lived in Hollywood and I had all that, the Rolls Royce and the Ferrari and the pad in Beverly Hills. I had the surf board and the Beach Boys and the bishkis and the Neil Diamond and the ramskam and the Jimmy shriffen [ph. ] and the Elvis Presley's best of bestlies and all them guys. The Dean and Martins and the Nancy Sinatras and the cops and sovereigns, "Will you do it to me? I hear you do it good honey" and all that kind of "Will you come up to my house later?" So I went through all that and I seen that was a bigger prison than the one I just got out of and I really didn't care to go back in prison. See, prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. Prison is in the mind. It's locked in one world that's dead and dying, or it's open to a world that's free and alive.“

—  Charles Manson

NBC interview (1987)

„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.“

—  Charles Manson

As quoted by Jerry Rubin in recounting his visit with Manson in We Are Everywhere (1971)

„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 (June 1970)

„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

Charles Manson's first prison interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbW0agGFv88 by 60 Minutes Australia (1981)

„A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.“

—  Charles Manson

Rolling Stone interview (June 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.“

—  Charles Manson

Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Xw5Dc_vWs by Geraldo Rivera (1981)

„I've been 15 years in the nut ward, for trying to stop the trees from being cut down, from trying to rearrange the lifestyle of a bunch of people who don't want to change. But they're gonna change because a cold wind is blowing. You're gonna change or else there's going to be no life left on the planet Earth.“

—  Charles Manson

Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHq2aN9tYE by Penny Daniels (1989)

„Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.“

—  Charles Manson

„We`re not in Wonderland anymore, Alice.“

—  Charles Manson

„Prison's in your mind. Can't you see I'm free?“

—  Charles Manson

Trial testimony (19 November 1970)
Kontext: 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?