Marilyn Manson Quotes

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

Civilized men do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains....

I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

So a part of you is broken when that’s gone. And part of you wants to have that rebellious feeling where you’re just like, forget it — I can do anything I want. I’ve tried it, and I’ve never been that girl. I’m always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever they are teaching you is nothing but imitation. Religious people - the so-called religious people, the priests, the theologians - they are also teaching you, 'Be like Jesus, be like Buddha, be like Krishna.' Nobody ever tells you, 'Just be yourself' - nobody. Everybody is against you, it seems. Nobody allows you to be yourself, nobody gives you any freedom. You can be in this world, but you must imitate somebody.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.

We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.