Anton Szandor LaVey Quotes

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

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

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

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

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.

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

What good are friends if they cant do you any good?

Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!

Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you’ve painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I’m sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it.

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.

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

I’ve always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I’m too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can’t a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it’s a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.