If a rich man’s entry into heaven seems as difficult as the camel’s attempt to go through the eye of a needle; if the love of money is the root of all evil; then we must at least assume the most powerful men on earth to be the most Satanic. This applies to financiers, industrialists, popes, poets, dictators, and all assorted opinion-makers and field marshals of the world’s activities.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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Since man’s natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there. 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.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Satanists hear these, and similar statements, all the time; and they agree wholeheartedly. But, if the world has changed so much, why continue to grasp at the threads of a dying faith? If many religions are denying their own scriptures because they are out of date, and are preaching the philosophies of Satanism, why not call it by it’s rightful name- Satanism? Certainly it would be far less hypocritical.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Burn every bit of desire out of your system, and then, when you no longer care, it will come to you. How.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The sexually over-aggressive man can be collected easily by the naturally dominant woman, who can accumulate an entire slave camp simply by allowing herself to appear on the scene wearing the accoutrements of the “push-over” as bait.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

We are no longer supplicating weaklings trembling before an unmerciful “God” who cares not whether we live or die.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

If a rich man’s entry into heaven seems as difficult as the camel’s attempt to go through the eye of a needle; if the love of money is the root of all evil; then we must at least assume the most powerful men on earth to be the most Satanic. This applies to financiers, industrialists, popes, poets, dictators, and all assorted opinion-makers and field marshals of the world’s activities.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

If a witch comes up to me some day, enlarges her pupils, and says: “With a hey nonnie nonnie and a hotcha cha,” she’ll be sure to get my attention!

— Anton Szandor LaVey

N OTHING is done in the interest of welfare for the common good where there is money to be made.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

It is always a villain, however, who becomes the catalyst for change. Consider.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The more grandiose the villain, the more beneficent he is to society.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Evil is the great savior and sustainer of those who condemn it most.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

For the bored and simple, those of little or no accomplishment, those who care little whether they live or die, an enemy is essential. Their validity as human beings is measured not by what they can do or who they are, but by who they are against!

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

How understandable that Holy Scripture should refer to the Infernal monarch as the “father of lies”- a magnificent example of character inversion.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

This powerful force which permeates and balances the universe is far too impersonal to care about the happiness or misery of flesh-and-blood creatures on this ball of dirt upon which we live.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

He feels a little better while watching the guy on TV or thinking of him. Still, he feels insignificant. He has a few heroes whom he sees on other TV shows: sports figures, a tough cop or a late-night talk show host. He lives vicariously through all of them. Unbeknownst.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Intrinsically evil people are often hypocrites who make a show of their Goodguy Badge; without an enemy to plague them they could never in any believable sense become Good. This.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Satan has never needed a book of rules, because vital natural forces have kept man “sinful” and intent on preserving himself and his feelings. Nevertheless, demoralizing attempts have been made on his body and being for this “soul’s” sake, which only illustrate how misconceived and misused the labels of “indulgence” versus “compulsion” have become.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Life is the one great indulgence; death the one great abstinence.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The Satanist feels: “Why not really be honest and if you are going to create a god in your image, why not create that god as yourself.

— Anton Szandor LaVey
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