Top 120 Anton Szandor LaVey Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

52. “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.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

53. “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...”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

54. “Do unto others as they do unto you.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

55. “Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

57. “The only thing Christianity ever contributed to Satanism was the name.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

58. “All we want, those few of us who have the strength to realize what’s going on, is the freedom to create and entertain and share with each other, to preserve and cherish what we can while we can, and to build our own little citadels away from the insensitivity of the rest of the world.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

59. “If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

60. “The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

61. “When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

63. “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.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

65. “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.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

66. “How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

67. “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.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

68. “There are many who would take my time. I shun them.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

70. “Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

72. “Why should I not hate mine enemies – if I “love” them does that not place me at their mercy?”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

74. “Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

75. “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?”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

76. “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

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

78. “I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I’d like to get inside their reptilian heads.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

79. “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.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

80. “Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

81. “Hair on a man’s chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

82. “A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

83. “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!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

86. “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.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

87. “Stop and consider if whatever you buy, see, listen to, or do is popular. If it is, it is programmed, and like it or not, so are you.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

88. “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

89. “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

90. “Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them: Cut them out, to the very core, just as cancers. Exterminate them root and branch. Annihilate them, or they will us!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

92. “Those who spell Magic with a K aren’t.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

93. “I thought, acted, and thereupon found myself removed.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

94. “Virtue is its own punishment – “nice girls” lose – and one of the surest signs of potential proficiency in witchcraft is an inability to get along with other women.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

95. “The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie- the lie everyone believes to be a model truth. It is the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and delusions. It is a hydra-headed tree of unreason with a thousand roots. it is a social cancer!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

97. “God and Jesus maketh the evil man good, the vicious man kind, the smitten man grateful, the victim happy. What.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

98. “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.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

99. “Pious prophets have taught man to fear Satan. But what of terms like “God fearing”? If God is so merciful, why do people have to fear him? Are we to believe there is nowhere we can turn to escape fear? If you have to fear God, why not be “Satan fearing” and at least have the fun that being God fearing denies you? Without such wholesale fear religionists would have had nothing with which to wield power over their followers.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

100. “The chief duty of every new age is to upraise new men to determine its liberties, to lead it towards material success- to rend the rusty padlocks and chains of dead custom that always prevent healthy expansion. Theories and ideas that may have meant life and hope and freedom for our ancestors may now mean destruction, slavery, and dishonor to us!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey