01c. 1989 ADI 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
02c. 1989 ADFind what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
03c. 1989 ADBut 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
04c. 1989 ADI've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
05c. 1989 ADThe death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
07c. 1989 ADMy 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
08c. 1989 ADWhen you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
09c. 1989 ADThe aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
10c. 1989 ADLike 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
12c. 1989 ADOur 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
13c. 1989 ADThe imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
14c. 1989 ADIf you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
15c. 1989 ADThe biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
16c. 1989 ADWhen you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
17c. 1989 ADThe 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
18c. 1989 ADIs adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
20c. 1989 ADI 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
21c. 1989 ADI never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
23c. 1989 ADYou might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
24c. 1989 ADWhen all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
