Top 120 Anton Szandor LaVey Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Even suicide has become less repugnant to many people than any number of other sins. Religion is totally to blame for this.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

103. “There has never been a great “love” movement in the history of the world that hasn’t wound up killing countless numbers of people, we must assume, to prove how much they loved them! Every hypocrite who ever walked the earth has had pockets bulging with love!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

104. “It is a terrifying thing when the animals laugh at the hunter. Take a tip from Harlequin and the Joker. If you imitate a fool well, you are not likely to be fooled by others. To be it bluntly, albeit unorginally: “A fool who knows he is a fool is indeed a wise man.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

105. “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.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

106. “It is rather curious that the only time suicide is considered sinful by other religions is when it comes as an indulgence.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

107. “Satanism has been frequently misrepresented as “devil worship”, when in fact it constitutes a clear rejection of all forms of worship as a desirable component of the personality.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

109. “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

110. “No creed must be accepted upon authority of a “divine” nature. Religions must be put to the question. no moral dogma must be taken for granted- no standard of measurement deified. 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

111. “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

112. “Live for today – don’t think about the past or the future” has been misapplied to “Dwell on today.” We must all respond to imminent situations. We either benefit from, cope with, or succumb to them.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

113. “Anyone who thinks of Satan as evil should consider all the men, women, children, and animals who have died because it was “God’s will.” Certainly a person grieving the untimely loss of a loved one would much rather have their loved one with them than in God’s hands!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

117. “Life is the one great indulgence; death the one great abstinence.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

118. “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

119. “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.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

120. “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

121. “Blessed are those that believe in what is best for them, for never shall their minds be terrorized- Cursed are the “lambs of God,” for they shall be bled whiter than snow!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

122. “With all the debates about whether or not God is dead, if he isn’t he had better have Medicare!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

123. “Blessed are the mighty-minded, for they shall ride the whirlwinds- Cursed are they who teach lies for truth and truth for lies, for they are an abomination!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

127. “Blessed are the valiant, for they shall obtain great treasure- cursed are the believers in good and evil, for they are frightened by shadows!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

128. “The Satanist knows that praying does absolutely no good- in fact, it actually lessens the chance of success, for the devoutly religious too often sit back complacently and pray for a situation which, if they were to do something about it on their own, could be accomplished much quicker!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

129. “If one cannot gain recognition for anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is “good,” which in most cases equates with “right”. Were it not for an evil to rail against he might just as well never have been born. Yes, evil is the great savior and sustainer of those who condemn it most.”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

130. “Anyone who says “we must try to understand” those who make life miserable for those undeserving of misery is abiding and abetting a social cancer!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey

133. “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

134. “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. The Christian Church knows that it is impossible for anyone to avoid committing these sins, as they are all things which we, being human, most naturally do. After inevitably committing these sins financial offerings to the church in order to “pay off” God are employed as a sop to the parishioner’s conscience!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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

— Anton Szandor LaVey