Higher Wisdom

Wisdom from creative characters

“Infidelity is not a thing that can be taken up or cast off, like a garment, at
one’s will. It is a matter of conviction, the results of which are involuntary
and irresistible, and I am but one of thousands of Infidels who have been
such for many years, knowing that they were losers by it in all respects
except those of honor, intellectual liberty, and good conscience.”
– Unknown, 1901

“To love one must first burn all trash from the closet of his mind.”
– Krishna Venta, 1948

“To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about
certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within
the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1970

“Truth is not free; one earns it through years of painful study.”
– Krishna Venta, 1948

“In the bourgeoisie society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in communist
society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent
and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
And by the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of
individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois individuality,
bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.”
– Karl Marx, 1848

“The jury systems, police, and politicians may determine guilt of deed but the
prison psychiatrist, parole board, and social worker determine the guilt of the
mind and ideological soul. It is no coincidence that the modern prison developed
alongside capitalism as did the notion of an early Christianized conception of
“rebirth” from the tomb one is placed in after such molding and “reflection”.
– Unknown, 2009

“Are you not all joint heirs of God? Therefore, are you not the sons and daughters of God?
For me to be egotistical enough to say I am the only son of God, I would be a hypocrite in
the sight of my Father, for you are all His children. Because I AM the Son of God, because
I AM the One who comes with my Father’s wisdom to reveal myself unto you, I am not
trying to put myself above you. I am merely trying to pass on wisdom to you.”
– Krishna Venta, 1948

“Who will reassure me that such and such a prophecy was not made after the event, or that it was not
just politically or self-fulfillingly contrived, like the prediction which foretells a prosperous reign under
a just king or forecasts frost in winter? If all this is in fact the case, how can you argue that prophecies,
which stand in dire need of proof, can themselves ever become a proof? As for your miracles, I am
no more impressed by them than by prophecies. All swindlers have worked miracles and the stupid
have believed in them. To be convinced of the truth of a miracle, I should have to be quite certain
that the event which you would call miraculous ran absolutely counter to the laws of Nature, since
only events occurring outside Nature can be deemed a miracle. But there, who is so learned in her
ways to dare state at what point Nature ends and at what precise moment Nature is violated?”
– Marquis de Sade, 1782

“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. 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. Most of the people at the ranch that
you call the Family were just people that you did not want, people that were alongside
the road, that their parents had kicked out, that did not want to go to Juvenile Hall.
So I did the best I could and I took them up on my garbage dump and I told them
this: that in love there is no wrong. I told them that anything they do for their
brothers and sisters is good if they do it with a good thought.”
– Charles Manson, 1970

“When I rejected belief in God, I rejected that slandering humbug, moral obligation, which today
unnerves the hands of ten thousand subject people where it brings one earnest pleader to their
side, to plead in vain to their oppressors for concessions. “Justice, Humanity, Liberty” are a deputy
trinity. Fooling with such phantoms, you remain the laughing-stock of human sharks. “Ought-to-be”
is as vain as “might -have-been.” With your “devotion” to a cause, you only continue in a sublimated
form the religious idea, like Christianity—the domination of one ideal or another over the individual.
Oppressors will really tremble when numerous people begin simply to accept all actions as equally
natural, but take whatever measures are practicable to remove what is obnoxious.”
– Benjamin R. Tucker, 1886

“If man insists on externalizing his true self in the form of “God,” then why fear his true
self, in fearing “God,”—why praise his true self in praising “God,”—why remain externalized
from “God” in order to engage in ritual and religious ceremony in his name? Man needs
ritual and dogma, but no law states that an externalized god is necessary in order to
engage in ritual and ceremony performed in a god’s name! Could it be that when he
closes the gap between himself and his “God” he sees the demon of pride creeping
forth—that very embodiment of Lucifer appearing in his midst?”
– Anton LaVey, 1969

“However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the
possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the
consideration that however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently and
fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.”
– John Stuart Mill, 1859

“Hell, you can live in daily. You need not go to your neighbors to find it. You need not traverse the
world to find it. You can find it in your own mind; for when you are unhappy inside, you are in
“heelo”—destruction. Every negative thought is tearing you down. Your spiritual side is prevented
from growing, and happiness is impossible. You cry. You can’t get along with yourself. You endure
nervous strain; your family and loved ones can’t even find happiness being with you. Then you
say, “They are to blame.” Is it not strange that man will always put the blame on someone else?
He always thinks when something does not go right it is the other person’s fault. Whose fault is
it? That which I fear most shall come upon me. Therefore, if the thought came out of your mind,
and it came to pass, it was only you who made it so, because you thought it so.”
– Krishna Venta, 1948

“Things that seem sacred-sacred for centuries, and accepted
by everybody—these are the things—the very things you must
learn to suspect and inquire into. Take nothing for granted.”
– Unknown, 1890’s

“Society knows what it wants to know that its just a jellyfish
and is only controlled by the people who want to move the
sheep around. They’ll tell ’em anything, everyone knows
that everybody’s lying, who can you trust, Nixon?”
– Charles Manson, 1972

“It is hopeless to expect to reform the present generation of men, but if we begin now,
with the mothers and prospective mothers of on-coming generations of men—if we give
these mothers what they need in the way of education in all that pertains to heredity, and
if we supply them with the conditions necessary for perfect motherhood, we shall then
have rational ground of hope that the grandchildren of the present generation will need
no reforming—but will be so well born that they will not need to be born again.”
– Sarah Rhoads, 1902 often quoted by Harman

“I’m never finished. I don’t think in those terms. I don’t think anyone should ever think
in those terms. If you think you’re finished, then you’re finished. And most people, when
they reach a certain age, they think, ‘Well, I’ve done this, I’ve done that.’ I have no
sympathy for people like that. So, go die…I’m so busy living. I don’t have time to
think about dying. When I die, I’ll be sad. Because I’ve got so much more to do.”
– Vince McMahon, 2022

“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
– Mikhail Bakunin, 1871

“Ten thousand years perversion of our moral instincts has
not been wholly redeemed by the education of one century.”
– Moses Harman, 1890

“Have the greatest self-respect, and to that end sin not against thyself.
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and willfully to reject truth,
to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”
– Aleister Crowley, 1909

“I break the social bond; my tendencies and my faculties invite me elsewhere; I have a sacred,
an inviolable right to develop those tendencies and faculties, and I choose to be at war with
the rest.” What answer can you make him within the limits of the doctrine of rights? What right
have you, merely as a majority, to compel his obedience to laws which do not accord with his
individual desires and aspirations? What right have you to punish him should he violate those
laws? The rights of each individual are equal; the mere fact of living together in society does
not create a single one. Society has greater power, not greater rights, than the individual.
How, then, will you prove to the individual that he is bound to confound his will in the will of
his brothers?…By means of the prison or the executioner? Every society that has existed
hitherto has employed these means. But this is a state of war, and we need peace.”
– Joseph Mazzini, 1858

“The children of the l960’s that you call the “Manson Family” wanted to stop a war
and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took
lives and they knew it. They gave all to clean up ATWA air, trees, water, animals, the
whole of the life of Earth, in love and concern for brothers and sisters in soul. They
gave to get their brothers and sisters out of cages and to touch some intelligence upon
the Earth. By living next to the land, we did see the drought and famine coming. For
my part, I was complete and willing to take responsibility for any influence I had over
The mind of all, but your courts ran for the money and away from their own fears,
guilts, and responsibilities. They didn’t want to confront the truth about themselves.”
– Charles Manson, 1986

“In this enlightened age, when we look back over the dark, gloomy, and bloody
past, it is enough to cause a thrill of horror to see the countless millions of human
beings that have been sacrificed in the cause of this Christian God. My Christian
friends, you cannot do without war. It has been associated with you ever since you
showed any signs of strength, and as long as you have any strength you cannot
let go of it. War has gone hand in hand with you from Genesis to Revelation.”
– William C., 1908

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888

“The phenomenal side of Spiritualism, though interesting as proof that we do not
die when the breath leaves our bodies, has long ceased to be a subject of prime
attraction to me. I am much more interested in making a heaven on earth than in any
possible heaven in the next world, admitting all that is claimed by believers in the
doctrine of a future life for mortals. Believing heaven to be a mental condition far
more than a locality or physical environment, I am trying to do what I can to arouse
my fellow human beings to see the truth that ignorance and mental stupidity lie
at the bottom of all the evils that afflict human life.”
– Moses Harman, 1900

“Consider these teachings as they are written. Turn them over honestly
in your own mind. Analyze them. Test them by your experience and
surroundings. Remove the religious mist in which they are embedded,
and you will be astonished to find that there is no real truth or value in
them whatsoever, that they are false in statement, false in rationing,
and especially false in intention. There is nothing truthful in Jesus.
He is an artificial priestly creation—an evil idol the great false god
—the deceiver of mankind—the father of illusion.”
– Unknown, 1890’s

“If you’re going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.”
– Charles Manson, 1969

“I am the Devil, and I’m here to do the Devil’s business.”
– Tex Watson, 1969

“Before I begin, however, I must express something openly to all of you. I am not a Communist.
I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am not a Socialist. I am not a party to any of the
organized political movements today. I belong to no organization, no cult, no creed. I love every
mortal who walks the face of this globe, whether he is black or white; whether he is a member of
any one of the organized denominations or cults. I love him whether he is a murderer or a saint,
for I came into the world to help those who could not help themselves. I will work with them as
my Father has directed. I have sheep in many fields and of every fold…They are all my children,
and if I were to bind myself to any organization, cult, or creed, I would defeat the cause, for God
does not uphold organizations. All mankind is God’s organization, and it cannot be divided.”
– Krishna Venta, 1948

“Now these fellows here in jail with me are nice fellows. They’re not really criminals. We
talk about religion, politics and such and get along real nice. It isn’t so bad to be in jail.”
– Albert Dahlstrom, 1913

“When momentum builds it doesn’t stop to ask authority for permission.”
– Unknown, 2026

“We may believe or disbelieve in a deity, and we cannot be forced into or to the support
of any church or religion through governmental tax. Political liberty, however, is denied
us. The question arises: If we do not have to recognize a fictitious religious god, then why
must we recognize a political god and do him reverence by tax and military service?”
– Walter Behlen, 1908

“A kind word is like a potent drug; it forces the evil into slumber. If those kind words can be kept
alive, then the evil will never be awakened. A helping hand is better than a valued gem. Its beauty
is in giving and not in selfish gain. An hour of self-forgetfulness is an hour well spent. It gives you
an understanding of others and how their lives are spent. It will make a man a human with one
thought in mind: to become a humanitarian. This is what the Savior meant when He said, “Am
I not my brother’s keeper.” Therefore, my dear children, let us live today and make the best of it.
For tomorrow never comes, and yesterday is passed. Tomorrow will always be today, tomorrow;
and yesterday was today, yesterday—when you were passing through it. The past is gone, and
you carry only the remembrances. If they are good, keep them. If they are bad, then throw them
away immediately. A good housekeeper never cleaves to old worn-out materials; therefore, keep
your own inner closet clean. Keep your thoughts in constant repair, and they shall serve you well.”
– Krishna Venta, 1948

“Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States,
it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii
and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march
into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House.”
– Isoroku Yamamoto, 1941

“Your parents have told you what you are. They made you before you were six years old,
and when you stood in school and you crossed your heart and pledged allegiance to the
flag, they trapped you in truth because at that age you didn’t know any lie until that lie was
reflected on you. No, I am not responsible for you. Your karma is not mine. My father is
the jail house. My father is your system, and each one of you are just a reflection of each one
of you, and you all live by yourselves, no matter how crowded you may think that you are in a
room full of people, you are still by yourself, and you have to live with that self forever. To some
people this would be hell; to some people it would be heaven. I have mine, and each one of
you will have to work out yours, and you cannot work it out by pointing your fingers at people.”
– Charles Manson, 1970

“I thought this was a free country, it now seems
that a man can’t even breath in a free country.”
– Charles Page, 1903

“If you lie to them then you lie against yourself, If you lie with
them now you’re lying with yourself, a good word of advice is
to always lie with & not against yourself, no one else can tell
you the truth that’s only for your eyes not theirs.”
– Unknown, 2026

“This same self‑confidence, I feel sure, accounts for most of the success of such
theocrats as Mrs. Eddy, Cyrus Teed, Brigham Young, and others I might name, of
ancient as well as modern times. The great masses of mankind have no confidence
in themselves; no feeling of self‑reliance, and no desire, even, to be self‑owning,
self‑controlling. All their lives they have been told that they are “miserable worms of
the dust,” sinners with no power to redeem or save themselves. Hence they fall easy
victims to the ambitious self‑seeker, the man of strong, positive will—one with the
electric temperament of body; one who by his egoistic, self‑assertive, self‑reliant,
self‑sufficient manner of speaking and acting, and by his electric emanations,
readily becomes a good healer of bodily infirmities.”
– Moses Harman, 1902

“The rules of life are not to be found in Qurans, Bibles, Decalogues and
Constitutions, but rather the rules of decadence and death. The “law of laws”
is not written in Hebrew consonants or upon tables of brass and stone, but
in every man’s own heart. He who obeys any standard of right and wrong,
but the one set up by his own conscience, betrays himself into the hands
of his enemies, who are ever laying in wait to bind him to their millstones.
And generally a man’s most dangerous enemies are his neighbors.”
– Unknown, 1890’s

“The Kampuchean revolution will appear more and more clearly as one of the most
significant early indications of the great and necessary change beginning to convulse
the world in the later 20th century and shifting from a disaster-bound course to one
holding out the promise of a better future for all. My argument is that the Kampuch
-ean experiment is a very valid and valuable experiment. It would be a great pity
if the Kampuchean experiment were to be extinguished by the intervention of a
power which, while it may have a more powerful army, has a less powerful and
less valid revolutionary model to offer the people of the Third World.”
– Malcolm Caldwell, 1979

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar
to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The
birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as nume
-rous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from
the event of a few months. The reflexion is awful—and in this point of view,
how trifling, how ridiculous, do the little, paltry cavillings of a few weak or
interested men appear, when weighed against the business of a world.”
– Thomas Paine, 1776

“They put the hideous bodies on display and they imply: If he gets out, see what will
happen to you. Helter Skelter means confusion, literally. It doesn’t mean any war with
anyone. It doesn’t mean that some people are going to kill other people…Confusion is
coming down around you fast. If you can’t see the confusion coming down around you
fast, you can call it what you wish. Is it a conspiracy that the music is telling the youth to
rise up against the establishment because the establishment is rapidly destroying things?
Is that a conspiracy? The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb,
and blind to even listen to the music. It is not my conspiracy. It is not my music. I hear
what it relates. It says “Rise,” it says “Kill.” Why blame it on me? I didn’t write the music.”
– Charles Manson, 1970

“They need have no fear ever to be interfered with as long as they retain
their pre-eminent position in industrial affairs. The ruling class industrially
will always be the ruling class politically. Since plutocrats form the ruling
class in all modern States, it is easy to understand why the negative
view of the State function has become the fashionable one.”
– Laurence Gronlund, 1884

“To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should
understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of
violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.”
– Leo Tolstoy, 1900

“Just as the spider weaves his silky web, to lure flies into the larder
of his banqueting hall, in order that he may at his leisure, pick the
flesh from off their bones; so, deceitful Ideals are cunningly woven by
dexterous political spiders, to capture and exploit swarms of human flies.”
– Unknown, 1890’s

“Goodbye Mom and Dad :'(“
– Nick Fuentes (in a better world/hopefully soon!?)

“Philosophers are detestable to the Church because they unmask the
tricks by which she imposes on mankind. These rascals dare to tell the
people: While your eyes are fixed on heaven in prayer and adoration,
as the priests command, your purses are being emptied here on earth
—the strings cut by those very hands that point upward.”
– Voltaire, 1764

“I have known beforehand that the man who undertook to enlighten the working
classes, and to tell the working classes truths, would be sentenced to death with
the same certainty that John Brown was sentenced to death. I have expected
it. I know that if I had kept silent I might have lived; but I have spoken because
I believed it my duty to speak. If I must die for it, I am ready.”
– George Engel, 1886

“My father is all men that I’ve ever met in prison… the captains the wardens
I never missed anybody I learned as much as I could from everybody I could
get ahold of and I’ve never met anybody that I couldn’t learn something from,
but now that I’ve learnt what I’ve learnt I don’t think you people want to know
what I know you wouldn’t like it…because the people that you let run your
lives aren’t very nice, the people that govern you aren’t good people.”
– Charles Manson, 1972

“Those who follow the backward trend bruise their heels.”
– Krishna Venta, 1948

“In Russia they exile their prophets. In this country we hang them.”
– Clarence Darrow, 1901 (on the Haymarket anarchists & Kropotkin)

“Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even tolerate
for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the
acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.”
– L. Ron Hubbard, 1966

“By law the liberties of men are overthrown. By law every wickedness is
legalized. By law every bondage is made possible. By law every tax, every
tribute is enforced and every iniquity upheld and emphasized. And all this
is eminently wise. and beautiful, and altogether lovely. Thus saith the
Prophets. But I say unto you: The Law crucifies; the Prophets lie.”
– Unknown, 1890’s

“When I first used to come to jail the windows had maybe two bars
over them and the sunshine used to come through and make a big
yellow two-striped rectangle on the floor or wall. When I came back
the next time there were four bars instead of two and less sunshine.
Now it’s all bars, steel panels over the windows and no sunshine.”
– Charles Manson, 1970

“I would not wish to a dog or to a snake, to the lowest and most unfortunate creature of the earth
—I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. But
my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a
radical, and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an
Italian. If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to
scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This
is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance,
for justice, for man’s understanding of man as now we do by accident. Our words—our lives
—our pains—nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish
-peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph.”
– Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1927

“The premise of your reality sits in the judge’s benches. The judge’s benches
represent crime. The police they do the will of the judge. The Attorney General
does the will of that. The governor does the will of that all the way up through
the Pentagon, all the way up to where the bombs drop off on the rice farmers.
It all starts down here in the courtroom.”
– Charles Manson, 1989

“I dont have to have a fucking skinhead, I dont have to be a
fucking hippie, I dont have to have a fucking mohawk, I dont
have to walk down the street in your goddamn combat boots
…if you don’t fucking like it then go home and fuck you.”
– G.G. Allin, 1989

“The laws of truth can also be millstones of deceit.”
– Krishna Venta, 1948

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so
absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
– Albert Camus, 1951

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”
– Marquis de Sade, 1782

“I don’t think like you people. You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has
never been important to anyone… she says when she looked in that man’s eyes that was
dying, she knew that it was my fault. She knew it was my fault because she couldn’t face
death. And if she can’t face death, that is not my fault. I can face death. I have all the time.
In the penitentiary you live with it, with constant fear of death, because it is a violent
world in there, and you have to be on your toes constantly.”
– Charles Manson, 1970

“I don’t know all the little itty bitty details. And I’m okay with that. That’s my
own choice. It’s my own volition and what happens to me, it’s going to be
my own fault. Right? If we can accept that point of view, but then I’m still
saying, “Yeah, I want to be educated. I want to know what’s going on and
maybe there’s some things I don’t know.” I think that’s a beautiful thing.”
– Cory Endrulat, 2026

“I was drunk last night, I know it, I’ll be drunk again today…
You and your straight edge can go eat shit for all I care.”
– G.G. Allin, 1990

“Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth
the precept: ‘Die at the right time!’ My death, praise I unto you,
the voluntary death, which cometh unto me because I want it.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

“Most people in this country will tell you that there was a “revolution” in 1776, whereby the
government was changed from a monarchy to a republic. Never was there a greater mistake.
There was no change in the spirit or in the basic principles of government. The war of 1776
resulted in a division of the British empire; a part of the American colonies of that empire sep
-arated, set up a government of their own, in which the form and spirit of that of the mother
country was very closely followed…but these governmental evils are more than offset on this
side of the Atlantic by corporate aristocracy, landlord aristocracy, and through the control of
the volume and issue of “legal tender” money by the banking lords. The parallels and contrasts
between the English and American governments could easily be extended much farther, but
what I have mentioned is quite enough to show that the American people did not get rid of
monarchy and aristocracy when they revolted against the rule of old King George and of his
prime minister Lord North. It is quite enough to show that in many respects we have copied
the worst features of the mother country’s institutions and failed to absorb the better features.”
– Moses Harman, 1907

“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 have ate out of your garbage cans to stay out of jail. I have wore your second
-hand clothes. I have done my best to get along in your world and now you want to kill me, and
I look at you, and then I say to myself, You want to kill me? Ha! I’m already dead, have been all
my life. I’ve spent twenty-three years in tombs that you built. Sometimes I think about giving it
back to you; sometimes I think about just jumping on you and letting you shoot me. If I could, I
would jerk this microphone off and beat your brains out with it, because that is what you deserve,
that is what you deserve. If I could get angry at you, I would try to kill everyone of you. If that’s
guilt, I accept it. These children, everything they done, they done for the love of their brother.”
– Charles Manson, 1970

“In 1929, you had the brokers jumping out of windows. In the
1990 crash, I saw friends of mine who were literally destroyed
mentally. I had one friend, a very successful guy, who couldn’t
take it anymore. He didn’t jump, but he might as well have.”
– Donald Trump, 1990 <—-8 this guys a piece of shit

“You can arrest someone by mistake; never release him by mistake.”
– Pol-Pot, 1975

“You know I loved you you fucking whore, you destroyed my marriage
I’ll destroy you. I was always sad but you didn’t give a fucking shit
but I still love you anyway, I’m glad your husband died.”
– Cranford Nix, 2000

“A new money system will be set. You will give up the old system in exchange for your life. You
may be willing to put your life and the lives of your family on the line for jobs that are unnecessary
and harmful to life, and if you chose a self-destructive course, others will help you reach your goal,
to save the rest of us from the mad men and women even thinking of doing anything that pollutes
or stands in the way of the balance of our Earth. I have many children with knives who love the
earth and want to live. I have passed an order to them that anyone responsible for murdering
any part of our family of life on Earth is subject to steel tooth death with no mercy.”
– Sandra Good, 1975

“I was working at cleaning up my house, something that Nixon should have been doing.
He should have been on the side of the road, picking up his children, but he wasn’t. He
was in the White House, sending them off to war. I don’t understand you, but I don’t try.
I don’t try to judge nobody. I know that the only person I can judge is me…But I know
this: that in your hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam
war as I am for killing these people. 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. 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 everyone of you.”
– Charles Manson, 1970

“I do not believe that radicals should associate with non-radicals, for it is dangerous in many ways,
and is not conducive to moral elevation, but I have no objections to non-radicals mutually violating
their own conventional code, so long as they do not make themselves obnoxious by denouncing
those whose principles and actions harmonize. All such relations are for them acts of war, of course,
but while enforced monogamy is the recognized social system war must be chronic.”
– James Denson, 1896

“We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an
opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be
done by social development, in which education must play a part.”
– Karl Marx, 1879

“If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict
puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are
undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.”
– Henry W., 1944

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will
find it out when the time comes.. And we must kill them all.”
– Ernest H., 1937

“Government and society are two distinct entities and care must be
taken not to confound them. Society is the growth of mutual tolerance,
friendship, and obligation; but government arises from physical force
applied by the strong to the control and exploitation of vanquished foes.”
– Unknown, 1890’s

“Everybody used to come in and tell me about their past and their lives
and what they did. But I could never tell anybody about my past or what
my life was or what I did because I have always been sitting in that room
with a bed, a locker, and a table. So, then it moves on to awareness: how
many cracks can you count in the wall? It moves to where the mice
live and what the mice are thinking, and see how clever mice are.”
– Charles Manson, 1970