139 Quotes by Vincent Bugliosi

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

If we were to get any of them to talk, I knew, we would have to separate them. There was a cohesion, a kind of.

I’ve always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

Apparently Fitzgerald hoped to soften the harshness of her reply when he asked her: “Have you killed anybody to get someone out of jail?” With a strange little smile, Cathy turned her head and, looking directly at the jury, replied: “Not yet.

Hurkos later told the press: “Three men killed Sharon Tate and the other four – and I know who they are. I have identified the killers to the police and told them that these men must be stopped soon. Otherwise they will kill again.” The killers, he added, were friends of Sharon Tate, turned into “frenzied homicidal maniacs” by massive doses of LSD. The killings, he was quoted as saying, erupted during a black magic ritual known as “goona goona,” its suddenness catching the victims unawares.

Rumors multiplied like bacteria. One.

Charlie said that death was beautiful, because people feared death.

Whenever people unquestioningly turn over their minds to authoritarian figures to do with as they please – whether it be in a satanic cult or some of the more fanatic offshoots of the Jesus Movement, in the right wing or the far left, or in the mind-bending cults of the new sensitivity – those potentials exist. One hopes that none of these groups will spawn other Charles Mansons.