Until they get bored with blowing up abortion clinics, I'm safe for a little while.
I like [The Bible] as a book. Just like I like The Cat In The Hat.
—Marilyn Manson.
If I'd really gotten my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on The Wonder Years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Besides, I wouldn't have sucked other people's dicks on stage, either. I would have been sucking my own. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I'm gonna call a surgeon in the morning.
Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.
From what I have learned of the content of their lyrics and message as well as their conduct on stage, they are clearly bent on degrading women, religion and decency, while promoting satanic worship, child abuse and drug use. These people are peddling garbage. It's further proof that society's moral values continue to crumble.
—Marilyn Manson on the nightly bomb threats from right-wing groups during the tour.
It's very admirable to be idealistic. You know, I want people to think, but I'm not trying to think I can save the world. Maybe they only deserve to be entertained before they're all destroyed.
There's something exciting and terrifying about club shows and theater shows, but the arena concert is so Antichrist Superstar. And tonight seeing six thousand people raise their fist to "Beautiful People" is so Nero, so powerful, bombastic, fascistic, rock and roll. It's disgusting and I love it.
Once again the so-called servants of God have proven my point with their hypocritical and hostile behavior. And once again they have illustrated their lack of separation between church and state and their disgusting similarities to Nazi Germany. Unfortunately everyone suffers: We suffer, our fans suffer, the Constitution of the U.S.A. suffers, and the pious right-wing politicians of South Carolina suffer because everyone now sees them for the fascist idiots they are. What do you expect from a state that still flies the Confederate flag? You want a revolution? You'll get it!
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—Manson's response to Garth's accusation that he took the Bible out of context.
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
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—Marilyn Manson on the Sneaker Pimps
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You can't judge who is Christ and who isn't. He may have more Christ in him than you do.
—Draft of the statement Marilyn Manson gave on MTV responding to the cancellation of their South Carolina show.
They are called superpredators. They are not here yet, but they are predicted to be a plague upon the United States in the next decade. They are not some creature from outer space; they are our own children.
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—Manson to Bill Maher, who replied, "I couldn't agree more."
I wouldn't waste my time having hard feelings. I've already forgotten their names ... Their participation, and now their opinion, is quite irrelevant to me.
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—Gov. Frank Keating's official statement
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Promotional poster for the Dead to the World Tour
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None of us wanted to play this Nothing Records showcase in the first place, and now I've inadvertently injured my drummer, nailing him with a microphone stand and landing him in the hospital. We had wanted to do a Marilyn Manson show to kick off the tour for Antichrist Superstar, but this turned into some sort of strange ego trip which I'm sure was just to make us look foolish. I'm going to go to sleep now and pretend like this didn't happen. This wasn't the beginning of the tour, it was one last favor.
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—Marilyn Manson's introduction to their rendition of the Patti Smith's "Rock N Roll Nigger" in Toronto.
I want to tell you about something that happened recently. There's a song that's twenty years old written by a woman named Patti Smith. And a couple of white cops came up to me and they said, 'You can't sing that song.' They said that it's against black people. What I wanna explain to those moronic fucking idiots is that song's about people like me and you, people that get discriminated against for the way we are. Just like they fucking discriminated against us today. And they didn't understand. It's because they are a bunch of fucking idiots. So I dedicate this song to the Canadian police force.
—Florence Henderson, defending Manson after Lakita Garth criticized him for comparing himself to Jesus Christ.
—Federal District Court Judge Alfred M. Wolin's ruling on Marilyn Manson, Inc v. New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority
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