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Quotes by Criminal

"I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal."

"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide."

"I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime."

"We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention."

"It was the first time she had visited me here in upstate New York. It was the last time I saw her."

"I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company."

"If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business."

"They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off."

"I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die."

"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."

"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights."


"The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive."


"It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child."

"I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy."

"A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light."

"Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless."

"I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover."

"Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order."

"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."

"Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point."


"I have put my faith in the Lord, and I really believe He's taking care of them. They're too beautiful and precious that He's not going to let anything happen to them."

"Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice."

"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!"
Man,

"I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death."

"Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile."

"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."

"Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option."
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