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• Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hate, Enemy, Doe

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• Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Interesting, People, Deviance

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• 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.

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  World, Want, Littles

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• 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.

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  Gun, Blue, Ideas

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• It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.

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  Silly, Stupid People, Cynical

  "The Nine Satanic Sins". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1987.

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• ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls "God".

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  Spiritual, Men, Ego

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation.

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  Truth, Men, Doubt

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.

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  Animal, Psychics, Companionship

  "The Devil's Notebook".

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• You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Thinking, Satanic, Ridiculous

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Selfishness, Satanism, Form

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• 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.

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  Wise, Passion, Cat

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• 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!

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  Men, Long Ago, Hands

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• 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.

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  Men, Games, Waiting

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Men, Hair

  "The Devil's Notebook". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1992.

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• Those that would say Satanist would like to kill animal's, sacrifice animals I would say they would make ideal animal sacrifices, I love animals and animals have always been part of me.

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  Sacrifice, Animal, Satanist

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

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  Ghetto, Mainstream Society, Islands

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• Good news is only really good to those directly involved. Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news makes them feel better. If not better, certainly gooder. If one cannot gain recognition for anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is "good", which in most case equates with "right".

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  Feel Better, Useless Life, People

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.17, Feral House

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• 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.

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  Sports, Baseball, Real

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• The only thing Christianity ever contributed to Satanism was the name

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  Names, Christianity, Satanism

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• I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.

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  Hate, People, Majority

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• But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They dont want to participate beyond a certain point. They want the safety of the herd, to be catered to, sit back and enjoy.

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  Average, Safety, Imagination

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• Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: indulgence instead of abstinence.

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  Frustration, Indulge In, Desire

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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

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  Sense Of Humor, Pretentious, Magician

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• 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.

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  Heaven, Strange, Eternity

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• A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.

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  Men, Practice, Motto

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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