211 Quotes by Charles Manson

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.

If we don't wake up to that, there's going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we're doing bad things to the atmosphere,

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

My life is not important here.

You live the lifestyle you were trained and conditioned to live. I create me own lifestyle, my own world. You live in the world that was created for you. You accept the things you were taught to accept because you don't know any different. I don't accept the things I was taught. I don't accept the trees being cut down. I don't accept the water being polluted. You people accept that.

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

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.

You may restrain my body and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and you can't take that. You can kill the ego, you can kill the pride, you can kill the want, the desire of a human being. You can lock him in a cell and you can knock his teeth out and smash his brain, but you cannot kill the soul. You never could kill the soul. It's always there, the beginning and the end. You cannot stop it, it's bigger than me. I'm just looking into it and it frightens me sometimes.

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.