Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

— Charles Manson

Fear of vikings build castles.

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

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 don't want to take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I want to go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. Furthermore, I run the underworld, guy. Furthermore, I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I going to run around like some teenybopper somewhere for someone else's money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards

— Charles Manson

I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care.

— Charles Manson

It seems a shame to have to sneak to get to the truth. To make the truth such a dirty old nasty thing. You have to sneak to get to the truth, the truth is condemned. The truth is in the gas chamber. The truth has been in your stockyards. Your slaughterhouses. The truth has been in your reservations, building your railroads, emptying your garbage. The truth is in your ghettos. In your jails. In your young love, not in your courts or congress where the old set judgement on the young. What the hell do the old know about the young? They put a picture of old George on the dollar and tell you that he's your father, worship him. Look at the madness that goes on, you can't prove anything that happened yesterday. Now is the only thing that's real.Every day, every reality is a new reality. Every new reality is a new horizon, a brand-new experience of living. I got a note last night from a friend of mine. He writes in this note that he's afraid of what he might have to do in order to save his reality, as i save mine. You can't prove anything. There's nothing to prove. Every man judges himself. He knows what he is. You know what you are, as I know what I am, we all know what we are. Nobody can stand in judgement, they can play like they're standing in judgement. They can play like they stand in judgement and take you off and control the masses, with your human body. They can lock you up in penitentiaries and cages and put you in crosses like they did in the past, but it doesn't amount to anything. What they're doing is, they're only persecuting a reflection of themselves. They're persecuting what they can't stand to look at in themselves, the truth.

— Charles Manson

The children of the 1960s that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it.

— Charles Manson

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

— Charles Manson

You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it.

— Charles Manson