Music is the strongest form of magic.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Marilyn Manson
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All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.
Life
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
Wisdom
Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.
Wisdom
I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.
Love
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
Love
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.
Truth
If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
Wisdom
Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.
Life
Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
Wisdom
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
Hope
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Wisdom
Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.
Life
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
Wisdom
When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.'
Friendship
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
Success
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
Education
Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.
Wisdom
Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.
Wisdom
To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.
Wisdom
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
Wisdom
I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.
Wisdom
I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
Wisdom
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
Wisdom
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