17 Charles Manson Quotes On Crime, Life, All
Charles Manson was a notorious and popular cult leader who masterminded a series of murders that shook America in the 60s while pursuing his ideology of a race war. He was also a songwriter in Los Angeles before his criminal record and subsequent charges bordering on the murder of Tete-LaBianca which saw him spend the rest of his life in jail. He was thought of as a crazy, inhuman and totally brutal criminal who had less regard for human lives. Below are 17 of Charles Manson quotes on his view about life, crime, religion and so on that suggest the kind of mindset he had as a cult leader and criminal mastermind.
For lack of a better category, we have filed this post under celebrity quotes. By celebrity here, we do not refer to him as a celebrated figure the kind you would mob in an event for his autograph. He was a public man in that his name was known and heard. If we ever create a public people’s category, Charles Manson would be there. We haven’t created this so Manson remains in the celebrities category. We are always reviewing things on this site and we are going to change this in the future if a great need to do so arises.
Charles Manson quotes
“Look down at me and you see a fool, look up to me and you see a god, look straight at me and you see yourself.”
“No sense makes sense.”
“You people will convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and people wouldn’t question it.”
“If you’re going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.”
“I’m too beautiful to be set free.”
“I’m Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don’t care.”
“Sure, I’m crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody’s crazy.”
“The real strong has no need to prove it to the phonies.”
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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.”
“We use the word of God. God hooks all the other words up. I’m the pope. I’m ten times the pope. I’m sixty times the pope. But I’m the pope in the hills and on the mountains.”
“I was so smart as a kid that I learned that I was dumb fast.”
“Death is the greatest form of love.”
“I told them that anything they do for their brothers and sisters is good if they do it with a good thought.”
“Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for. If I don’t deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn’t break no law.”
“To save a people from themselves, it would take a greater fear than the earth has ever seen.”
“Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.”
“In fact, it makes me mad when someone kills snakes or dogs or cats or horses. I don’t even like to eat meat – that is how much I am against killing…”
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