Top 100 Charles Manson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You know who your enemy is? You’re the enemy. You sit there fat, sloppy, you watch your TV, and you kick back and you judge everybody as being wrong and bad, but you.”

— Charles Manson

52. “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

53. “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

54. “If it wasn’t for the publicity, I would’ve been out of here and gone a long time ago.”

— Charles Manson

55. “In my mind’s eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.”

— Charles Manson

56. “Let’s clap our hands for the president and Jesus Christ and did I mention Charlie Manson and everybody else, who was nice.”

— Charles Manson

57. “All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn’t listen and now I can’t hear you.”

— Charles Manson

58. “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

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

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

62. “I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.”

— Charles Manson

63. “The Charlie Manson that you’ve created, that’s not me. That’s only an illusion in your minds, it hasn’t got anything to do with me.”

— Charles Manson

64. “I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.”

— Charles Manson

65. “I’m Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don’t care.”

— Charles Manson

66. “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...”

— Charles Manson

67. “I have X’d myself from your world.”

— Charles Manson

68. “To save the people from themselves it would take a greater fear than the earth has ever seen.”

— Charles Manson

69. “Time and circumstance made me into this Manson guy, Satan. Society wanted to buy this evil, mass-murdering-devil-fiend. I’m nobody. I’m the hobo in line. Give me a bottle of wine and put me on a train. I don’t fit into the world you guys live in, so I live over there in the shadows of it.”

— Charles Manson

70. “I play music. People are affected by the music I play. That doesn’t mean I direct traffic! That doesn’t mean I put a knife in anybody’s hand and tell ’em to go kill somebody!”

— Charles Manson

71. “I don’t want parole; I’m too busy working on my web site...”

— Charles Manson

72. “There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.”

— Charles Manson

73. “I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.”

— Charles Manson

74. “What do the animals do in the zoo? That’s the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I’m in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn’t do it. I’m in solitary confinement, may I add.”

— Charles Manson

75. “Now I am too beautiful to be set free.”

— Charles Manson

76. “I’m in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain’t got nothing to do with the law.”

— Charles Manson

77. “If I could get angry at you, I would try to kill every one of you. If that’s guilt, I accept it.”

— Charles Manson

78. “You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want to blame somebody else for it. And you got to dig up some poor-ass idiot that don’t have the brain of a retarded spastican and make him a cult leader!”

— Charles Manson

79. “I’m involved in too many things. I have a Web site I’m working on.”

— Charles Manson

80. “Most of the people at the ranch were just people you did not want, people that were alongside the road.”

— Charles Manson

81. “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

82. “We use the word 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 in the mountains.”

— Charles Manson

83. “I am not in jail. There is no jail.”

— Charles Manson

84. “I’ve done nothing I’m ashamed of. Nothing I couldn’t face God with. I wouldn’t kill a bug.”

— Charles Manson

85. “Prison is a frame of thought, we’re all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison in your mind, can’t you see I’m free?”

— Charles Manson

86. “My reality is my reality, and I stand within myself on my reality.”

— Charles Manson

87. “I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that’s only my own thinking and not you.”

— Charles Manson

88. “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.”

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

90. “You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, ‘These are what the words mean.’ Well, this is what they mean to you, but to someone else, they have got a different dictionary.”

— Charles Manson

91. “You see, you can send me to the penitentiary, it’s not a big thing. I’ve been there all my life anyway. What about your children? These are just a few, there is many, many more coming right at you.”

— Charles Manson

92. “Why couldn’t we put on a defense? I had seventeen witnesses standing outside the door. They just dropped the defense and went on to the penalty phase. Like everything was cut and dry before it went off to martini land.”

— Charles Manson

93. “I’m not very wise to many things.”

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

95. “Death is peace from this world’s madness and paradise in my own self. Death as I lay in my grave of constant vibration, endless now.”

— Charles Manson

96. “I loved my mother, she’s a good girl.”

— Charles Manson

97. “I know what I would say now and I don’t lie, so I know I what I would say then. And I certainly wouldn’t tell nobody to go in and do nothing to anybody that I wouldn’t want done to me.”

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

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

— Charles Manson

100. “I told them that anything they do for their brothers and sisters is good if they do it with a good thought...”

— Charles Manson