Marilyn Manson Quotes

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

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level.

Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that wil shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan," but I couldn't bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.

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

Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

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

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

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.