149 Quotes by Anton Szandor LaVey

Don’t help someone who has proven himself a consistent failure in the past.

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

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.

I knew a young guy who was studying to be a mortician many years ago. People always got around to the question, after much verbal detouring, “Why do you want to be a mortician?” The reply was, “Because I like to play with dead bodies.” That is what is known as “pulling the rug out from under.

Be wary of advice from one who is less successful than yourself.

The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the most strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifers.

Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don’t like.

If one cannot gain recognition foranything 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 whocondemn it most.

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.