Best 346 quotes of Marilyn Manson on MyQuotes

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

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.

A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar[the album] is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's...to make people question that and make people think about different perspectives.

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

Art is a big question mark.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

As a kid I was, constantly terrorized with the idea of Armageddon and the Antichrist and things like that and as I got older, I realized that, something like Antichrist is the collective disbelief in God.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.

A story might sell if there's a headline like 'Marilyn Manson admits to being Satanic', all the little hypocrites will go and buy the magazine, read about what evil, weird people we are and will feel better about themselves.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

Better pray for hell, not hallelujah.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ." Manson: "I can't possibly be at war with Christ, because your religion killed him and what he stood for. But if you want to be at war with me, bring it on.

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...

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

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.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Films and things like that are really my first love and, so when we get to make videos it's just as important as the song. To me it's not a commercial, for me it's a whole work of art on it's own so, we plan on working on a movie and things like that in the future so.

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

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

For me, it's never been an ego situation where I have been "I'm the boss; expletive you." It's always been a situation where someone comes to me and says "I can't tolerate working with you anymore" and I would admit sometimes I wouldn't blame them for that. But I also sometimes think I'm not that difficult to figure out. I don't really know what has driven people to be so angry and bitter - people like my old keyboard player Pogo, who I've known for such a long time. I feel bad for him, but there are grievances with everything.

For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it's important to get them out.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

God is just a statistics.

God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.

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.'

Hate today, no love for tomorrow

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.