Marilyn Manson citations

“I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.”

“We don't like to kill our unborn, we need them to grow up and fight our wars.”

“You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.”

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”

“All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.”

“Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.”

“I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.”

“What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.”

“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.”

“Art is a big question mark.”

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”

“A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.”

“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.”

“Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.”

“The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.”

“In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?”

“I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.”

“People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.”

“I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.”

“Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.”

“This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face.”

“If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.”

“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”

“Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they meant.”

“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”

“What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.”

“Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.”

“Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.”