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“I don't want to take my time going to work. I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and 10 or 15 girls. What the hell I want to go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I've 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 and act like I'm some teeny-bopper somewhere for somebody else's money? I make the money, man. I roll the nickels. The game is mine! I deal the cards.”

Charles Manson

Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-U2-cAUMM

“... you 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.”

Charles Manson

Source: Diane Sawyer interview (ABC, 1993)

“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.”

Charles Manson

“They're looking for something dirty in everything, and if you're looking for something, you'll find it. You have to put up some kind of face for them, and that's the only face they understand.”

Charles Manson

Rolling Stone interview (June 1970)

“If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire.”

Charles Manson

Rolling Stone interview (June 1970)

“I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine, and a straight razor if you get too close to me.”

Charles Manson

Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrqaPThCmI

“Death is the greatest form of love.”

Charles Manson

“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.”

Charles Manson

As quoted in 101 People You Won't Meet in Heaven: The Twisted Achievements of the Most Brutal and Sadistic Individuals the World Has Ever Known (2007) by Michael Powell, p. 148

“The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.”

Charles Manson

“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.”

Charles Manson

Source: Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive'

“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.”

Charles Manson

Rolling Stone interview (June 1970)

“Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress?”

Charles Manson

Interview track from Charles Manson Sings (2006)

“Rubin, I am not of your world. I've spent all my life in prison. When I was a child I was an orphan and too ugly to be adopted. Now I am too beautiful to be set free.”

Charles Manson

As quoted by Jerry Rubin in recounting his visit with Manson in We Are Everywhere (1971)

“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.”

Charles Manson

NBC interview (1987)

“You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God.”

Charles Manson

“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.”

Charles Manson

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”

Charles Manson

Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6K0umwZwo by Diane Sawyer (1994)