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

Anton Szandor LaVey

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In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!
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I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
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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.
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I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.
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Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.
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