"While I was working on Downward Spiral, I was living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Then one day I met her sister. It was a random thing, just a brief encounter. And she said: "Are you exploiting my sisters death by living in her house?" For the first time, the whole thing kind of slapped me in the face. I said, "No, its just sort of my own interest in American folklore. Im in this place where a weird part of history occurred." I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister from a senseless, ignorant situation that I dont want to support. When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, "What if it was my sister?" I went home and cried that night. It made me see theres another side to things, you know?"
Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.
"So how do you communicate to a whole group of people? You stand up and take the worst fear symbol [swastika] and say "There, now Ive got your fear. Now Ive got your fear." And your fear is your power and your power is your control. Im your king of this whole planet. Im gonna rule this whole world."
Charles Manson"Nobody. Im nobody. Im a tramp, a bum, a hobo. Im a boxcar and a jug of wine. And a straight razor if you get too close to me."
Charles Manson"Progress? Theres no such thing as progress. Theres 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"Were all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I cant judge anyone else. What other people do is not really my affair unless they approach me with it. Prisons in your mind. Cant you see Im free?"
Charles Manson"Rubin, I am not of your world. Ive 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"If I wanted to kill somebody, Id take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldnt feel a thing."
Charles Manson"In the life of the mass-order, the culture of the generality tends to conform to the demands of the average human being. Spirituality decays through being diffused among the masses when knowledge is impoverished in every possible way by rationalisation until it becomes accessible to the crude understanding of all."
"I say this to you because we Spaniards are a forgetful people, because we are used to living for the moment, because we do not look back, because we do not know how to see the chain of heroes, because we do not contemplate the sum of sacrifices."
Francisco Franco"Sharon Tate was my best friend. Once, we were roommates. She introduced me to my husband. She was the godmother to my baby daughter who is named for her. In the six years time that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone."
"Long time to see. (VS: Tapion)"
"Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants." Once in a discussion about the rapid growth of mathematics in modern times, von Neumann was heard to remark that whereas thirty years ago a mathematician could grasp all of mathematics, that is impossible today. Someone asked him: "What percentage of all mathematics might a person aspire to understand today?" Von Neumann went into one of his five-second thinking trances, and said: "About 28 percent."
John von Neumann"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their childrens minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are."