Top 15 Charles Manson Quotes

I don't exist in your world, i'm only what is ... what it is! It is what it is! ... Ten-hut!

Changed? I was a changed man when I got out last time, I learned ... I learned ... I learned my lesson well ...

I see blood in here every day, every day someone's getting shot, someone's getting cut, someone's getting beat ... i've lived in that all my life woman, that don't wrinkle up my forehead ... you can pile 100 dead bodies up in front of my cell and it don't set me to do nothing ...

[W]e'll hold you on the table, and we'll deal this hand to you - hey you got a hippie cult leader - i'm not a hippie cult leader, I never was a hippie, i don't know what a hippie was man ...

[Y]ou know, a long time ago being crazy meant something, nowadays everybody's crazy ... so, I mean, you know, like ... you know ... (abrupt) synonymous, I mean, it's an irony man, it's a pair of ducks ... I mean ... are you crazy? ... dressed in black, you think I don't know everything that goes with that black you're dressed in ... [laughs] yeah ... where's your black gloves? ... You got your rings, you think I don't understand your blue rings and your yellow (deliberate garbled speech) ... you think you're anything [deliberate garbled speech] ... yeah yeah yeah yeah ... yeah and then behind that, then you know there's another (deliberately mumbles & fades off)

[Y]ou know, it's like you think the second world war is over ... [the] second world war is not over ... d'you understand what i'm telling you ... th'second world war is not over

Look here, uh ... see here's another thing you guys don't understand ... you've got an underworld and a overworld ... you guys live in the overworld ... I live in the underworld

I'm a hobo a bum, a boxcar and a jug of wine, interview.

Believe me, if I started murdering people, there'd be none of you left.

There's nothing wrong with being incompetent. It just means you don't have to do as much.

I've never killed anyone. I don't need to kill anyone. I think it. I have it here. [points to head]

I lived in Hollywood and I had all that, the Rolls Royce and the Ferrari and the pad in Beverly Hills. I had the surf board and the Beach Boys and the bishkis and the Neil Diamond and the ramskam and the Jimmy shriffen [ph.] and the Elvis Presley's best of bestlies and all them guys. The Deana Martins and the Nancy Sinatras and the cops and sovereigns, "Will you do it to me? I hear you do it good honey" and all that kind of "Will you come up to my house later?" So I went through all that and I seen that was a bigger prison than the one I just got out of and I really didn't care to go back in prison. See, prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. Prison is in the mind. It's locked in one world that's dead and dying, or it's open to a world that's free and alive.

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? [ph.]

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.

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