Anton Szandor LaVey Quotes

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

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

I give people Ayn Rand with trappings.

Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!

When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake?and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

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!

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

Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs – Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison.

In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.