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
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
There's nothing wrong with being incompetent. It just means you don't have to do as much.
I play music. People are affected by the music I play. That doesn't mean I direct traffic! That doesn't mean I put a knife in anybody's hand and tell 'em to go kill somebody!
You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, 'These are what the words mean.' Well, this is what they mean to you, but to someone else, they have got a different dictionary.
The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
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.
Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind
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.
If I wanted anyone killed, I'd kill them myself. But I don't want anyone killed because I love my own life. Does that make any sense? I love life and I love living, but no, I don't want to live in society. Society don't want me, why should I want them? I don't belong in society and there's no place in society that I fit.
Maybe I should have killed four, five hundred people. Then I would have felt better. Then I would have felt like I really offered society something.
So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.
Most of the people at the ranch were just people you did not want, people that were alongside the road.
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.
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.