Anton Szandor LaVey
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.Collection: Pain
Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.Collection: Responsibility
If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.Collection: Block
The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.Collection: Christian
Love is one of the most intense feelings felt by man; another is hate. Forcing yourself to feel indiscriminate love is very unnatural. If you try to love everyone you only lessen your feelings for those who deserve your love. Repressed hatred can lead to many physical and emotional aliments. By learning to release your hatred towards those who deserve it, you cleanse yourself of these malignant emotions and need not take your pent-up hatred out on your loved ones.Collection: Hate
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!Collection: Anarchy
I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.Collection: Christian
There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.Collection: Men
Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.Collection: Lions
Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.Collection: Stupid
Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.Collection: Evil
Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!Collection: Hate
Say unto thine own heart, 'I am mine own redeemer.Collection: Heart
There is no heaven, there is no hell, except here on Earth.Collection: Heaven
The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.Collection: Insecure
Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: "Do unto others as they do unto you"; because if you "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to continue to treat them with consideration. You should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they deserve.Collection: Wrath
The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge ‘entertainment centers’ covering entire walls with several TV monitors. What started as an innocent respite from everyday life has become in itself a replacement for real life for millions, a major religion of the masses.Collection: Wall
It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.Collection: Stupidity
I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.Collection: Satanic
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith.Collection: Reality
What good are friends if they cant do you any good?Collection: Ifs
I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others.Collection: Giving
In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.Collection: Order
Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it.Collection: Real
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.Collection: Thinking
The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.Collection: Fire
There are many who would take my time. I shun them.Collection: Satanism
The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what’s wrong with THAT? Isn’t that the way any master plan should work? Doesn’t the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?Collection: Zion
Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.Collection: Sitting
There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.Collection: Two Sides
I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.Collection: Mets
The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the most strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifers.Collection: Doubt
I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity.Collection: People
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!Collection: Idols
I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.Collection: Sky
Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.Collection: Stupidity
I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.Collection: Golden
It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.Collection: Levels
I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...Collection: Christian
Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!Collection: Dream
A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.Collection: Men
Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.Collection: Heaven
Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: indulgence instead of abstinence.Collection: Frustration
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.Collection: Mother
I like raunchiness, not like in a biker-chick sort of a way, but like the girl can't help it. Little bruises, a few hairs out of place, a little stain here and there.Collection: Girl
Satanism demands study, not worship!Collection: Demand
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!Collection: Strong
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!Collection: Dogma
Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!Collection: Philosophy