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
All the men in the joint raised me up, told me what to do, what was right and wrong, told me when to sit down, when to stand up, I just did whatever I was told.
I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.
Most of the attorneys just want the publicity of the trial. They don't care about the man at all. If there was some kind of writ that could get me out of here tomorrow, they wouldn't bring it, because they all want to go through the whole trial and wring every last drop of publicity out of the whole thing.
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.
I am the man in the mirror, anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free. I am just a mirror.
In the penitentiary you learn this: don't lie. Don't lie, man. If someone catches you in a lie you leave yourself open to get snuffed. And all my life I lived in that eye of: tell the truth. Pay your debts. Don't get involved in other people's business. Do your number, do your time. And you learn to stand on your own. So, I am walking and standing on my own. People see me standing on my own and not too many people in your world can do that. And I don't realize that at that particular time. I don't realize how weak and mindless you people are.
Everything is beautiful if you want to experience it totally.
Believe me, if I started murdering people there'd be none of you left!
You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago....
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....
Well, were our own prisons. We each our own wardens & we do our own times. We get stuck in our own little trips & we kind a judge ourselves the way we do. You know, I cant judge uh, nobody else, best thing I can do is try to judge myself & live with that. See, what other people do is not really my affair, unless they approach me with it, & want me to do something about it, uh, then Ill uh take into consideration what has to be done. But other than that I just uh, try to do my number, & do my time.
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
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 can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.