Charles Manson
Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson:136–7 is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in the California desert in the late 1960s. Manson and his followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. In 1971 he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the murders of seven people — most notably of the actress Sharon Tate — all of which were...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth12 November 1934
CityCincinnati, OH
CountryUnited States of America
You eat meat and you kill things that are better than you are, and then you say how bad, and even killers, your children are. You made your children what they are....
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.
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.
A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.
You can take a pile of rocks and use them to build a house, or you can take the same pile and start a war. Tell children not to throw rocks, make rules against picking up rocks, and then make them mad. Keep projecting what not to do and you make the thought in their brains of what can and will be done.
You eat meat with your teeth and you kill things that are better than you are, and in the same respect you say how bad and even killers that your children are. You make your children what they are.
You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago....
Believe me, if I started murdering people there'd be none of you left!
My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system.... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy.
The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.
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.