Just because you’re convicted in a court room doesn’t mean you’re guilty of something.

Meaning of the quote

This quote means that even if a court says someone did something wrong, that doesn't always mean the person is actually guilty. Just because a court finds someone guilty, it doesn't necessarily mean they really did the crime. Sometimes the court can make mistakes or not have all the information.

About Charles Manson

Charles Manson was a notorious American criminal and cult leader who led the Manson Family in the late 1960s. He was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy for the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, though he never directly ordered the killings. Manson was an aspiring musician who had connections in the Los Angeles music industry, but failed to secure a record contract.

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I’m not of this generation.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

My life is not important here.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

No sense makes sense.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don’t see it happening.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

We’re not in Wonderland anymore Alice.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I punched my mother out once.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

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

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I loved my mother, she’s a good girl.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn’t teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I’m not very wise to many things.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I will have you removed if you don’t stop. I have a little system of my own.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system… I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

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.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

How old am I? I’m as old as my mother told me. How’s that?

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I was a beatnik in the ’50s before the hippies came along.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn’t that give me equal right?

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I can’t dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven’t got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

Pain’s not bad, it’s good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

Just because you’re convicted in a court room doesn’t mean you’re guilty of something.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody’s crazy.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I have X’d myself from your world.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

Did I kill anyone?

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

I ain’t got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It’s kind of silly.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

If you’re going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)

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

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader (1934-2017)