445 Quotes by Marilyn Manson

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.