Top 100 Charles Manson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Each night as you sleep I destroy the world.”

— Charles Manson

2. “We’re not in Wonderland anymore Alice.”

— Charles Manson

3. “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

4. “The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that’s the end, to me it’s the beginning, it’s the universe in there, there’s a world in there, and I’m free.”

— Charles Manson

5. “No sense makes sense.”

— Charles Manson

6. “Don’t treat the dogs like people. Treat the dogs like dogs. They are better than people.”

— Charles Manson

7. “Fear of vikings build castles.”

— Charles Manson

8. “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?”

— Charles Manson

9. “Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.”

— Charles Manson

10. “Believe me, if I started murdering people there’d be none of ya left.”

— Charles Manson

11. “I am the man in the mirror, anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free. I am just a mirror.”

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

13. “Death is the greatest form of love.”

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

15. “As long as there’s hate in your heart, there’ll be hate in the world. You can’t fight for peace and you cannot capture freedom.”

— Charles Manson

16. “Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google. Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga?”

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

18. “You got to realize; you’re the Devil as much as you’re God.”

— Charles Manson

19. “Total paranoia is just total awareness.”

— Charles Manson

20. “The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.”

— Charles Manson

21. “I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.”

— Charles Manson

22. “My philosophy is: Don’t think.”

— Charles Manson

23. “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.”

— Charles Manson

24. “Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.”

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

26. “The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing.”

— Charles Manson

27. “Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.”

— Charles Manson

28. “If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire.”

— Charles Manson

29. “Air is God, because without air we do not exist.”

— Charles Manson

30. “I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something...”

— Charles Manson

31. “I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I’ll treat you right.”

— Charles Manson

32. “You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.”

— Charles Manson

33. “You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything that you think you know, everything that you have been taught.”

— Charles Manson

34. “How the hell did I brainwash 35 girls in less than a year? That’s impossible. You’re making me out to do the impossible. You don’t understand you are making me a legend.”

— Charles Manson

35. “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

36. “Anything you see in me is in you. If you want to see a vicious killer, that’s who you’ll see, do you understand that? If you see me as your brother, that’s what I’ll be. It all depends on how much love you have. I am you, and when you can admit that, you will be free. I am just a mirror.”

— Charles Manson

37. “The way out of a room is not through the door. Just don’t want out. And you’re free...”

— Charles Manson

38. “You eat meat with your teeth and you kill things that are better than you are, and in the same respect you say how bad and even killers that your children are. You make your children what they are.”

— Charles Manson

39. “Maybe I should have killed four, five hundred people. Then I would have felt better. Then I would have felt like I really offered society something.”

— Charles Manson

40. “There’s nothing wrong with being incompetent. It just means you don’t have to do as much.”

— Charles Manson

41. “My life is not important here.”

— Charles Manson

42. “I’m not your executioner. I’m not your devil and I’m not your God. I’m Charles Manson.”

— Charles Manson

43. “You know what they’re doing to your Constitution? They’re making a joke out of your Constitution. Love’s not in your court room. And God is not in your heart.”

— Charles Manson

44. “Good for some may not be the same for others.”

— Charles Manson

45. “If I haven’t seen it, it’s new to me.”

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

48. “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

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

— Charles Manson

50. “To get yourself together you need not to even think there is anyone else in this world. I don’t need to look down on, or get off on, or get over on. The hardest thing to overcome is our own lies, confusion and our jealousy.”

— Charles Manson