Charles Manson
American criminal who led the "Manson Family," a quasi-commune that arose in the U.S. state of California in the later 1960s.
He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate-LaBianca murders, which members of the group carried out at his instruction. Through the joint-responsibility rule of conspiracy, he was convicted of the murders themselves.
Manson is forever associated with "Helter Skelter", the term he took from the Beatles song of that name and construed as an apocalyptic race war that the murders were intended to precipitate. This connection with rock music linked him, from the beginning of his notoriety, with pop culture, in which he became an emblem of insanity, violence, and the macabre. Ultimately, the term was used as the title of the book that prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote about the Manson murders.
At the time the Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed ex-convict, who had spent half his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses. In the period before the murders, he was a distant fringe member of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly via a chance association with Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. After Manson was charged with the crimes, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially; a number of artists have covered his songs in the decades since.
Manson's death sentence was automatically reduced to life imprisonment when a decision by the Supreme Court of California temporarily eliminated the state's death penalty. California's eventual reestablishment of capital punishment did not affect Manson, who is an inmate at Corcoran State Prison.
“There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river.”
“Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind”
“The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that's the end, to me it's the beginning, it's the universe in there, there's a world in there, and I'm free.”
“I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care.”
“Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.”
“Look down at me and you see a fool,Look up at me and you see a god,Look straight at me and you see yourself.”
“it seems a shame to have to sneak to get to the truth.To make the truth such a dirty old nasty thing.You gotta sneak to get to the truth, the truth is condemned.The truth is in the gas chamber.The truth has been in your stockyards.Your slaughterhouses.The truth has been in your reservations, building your railroads, emtying your garbage.The truth is in your ghettos.In your jails.In your young love,not in your courts or congress where the old set judgement on the young.What the hell do the old know about the young?They put a picture of old George on the dollar and tell you that he's your father, worship him.Look at the madness that goes on, you can't prove anything that happened yesterday.Now is the only thing that's real.Everyday, every reality is a new reality.Every new reality is a new horizon,a brand new experience of living.I got a note last night from a friend of mine.He writes in this note that he's afraid of what he might have to do in order to save his reality, as i save mine.You can't prove anything.There's nothing to prove.Every man judges himself.He knows what he is. You know what you are, as i know what i am,we all know what we are.Nobody can stand in judgement, they can play like they're standing in judgement.They can play like they stand in judgement and take you off and control the masses, with your human body.They can lock you up in penitentiaries and cages and put you in crosses like they did in the past,but it doesn't amount to anything. What they're doing is, they're only persecuting a reflection of themselves. They're persecuting what they can't stand to look at in themselves,the truth.”
“Fear of vikings build castles.”
“We`re not in Wonderland anymore, Alice.”
“From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.”
“You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it.”
“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?”
“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”
“I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards”
“I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”
“If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.”
“No sense makes sense.”
“The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.”
“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.”
“Death is the greatest form of love.”
“Now I am too beautiful to be set free.”
“In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.”
“I'm nobodyI'm a tramp, a bum, a hoboI'm a boxcar and a jug of wineAnd a straight razor ...if you get too close to me”
“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”
“I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you.”
“Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?”