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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)