Marilyn Manson Quotes

Living in lawlessness gives you lawlessness.

We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean to the other. And we're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time, where every man doing that which is right in his own eyes-in other words, anarchy.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

What is the world coming to?

Today in Russia, we have this extreme form of democracy, which is called anarchy.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly policy and order, clothes itself with the name of justice and becomes like a seed of discord in the soul.

The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.