Anton Szandor LaVey Quotes

If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

Those who spell Magic with a K aren't.

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

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.

A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...

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.

I thought, acted, and thereupon found myself removed.

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.

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.

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.

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

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.

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.

Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

I give people Ayn Rand with trappings.

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

It is certainly true that ‘actions speak louder than words, ’ but words become as monuments to thoughts.

I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves!

Satanism is developing two circles, an elitist group which I always intended my church to be, and the faddists who are becoming Satanists because it’s the thing to do.