Citaten uit satanische boeken en essays, of gewoon rake uitspraken van het net geplukt. Wordt wellicht af en toe bijgevuld.

Hogepriester Peter H. Gilmore

“[...] we do not embrace an “anything goes” atmosphere wherein all values are relative and nothing rises above the sludge of commonality”- The Satanic Scriptures: Satanism, The Feared Religion

“Most Satanists are particularly disgusted by the extraordinary level of criminal activity that abounds today, thus they advocate a return to the Roman Lex Talionis - let the punishment fit in kind and degree the crime.” - The Satanic Scriptures: Satanism, The Feared Religion

“What self-styled “Satanists” fail to realize when they find themselves disagreeing with the principles established in the literature of the Church of Satan is that it isn’t Satanism that must change to accommodate their disagreement. They themselves must abandon their improper self-definition. Satanism is codified—a rational and coherent construct. It is not an amorphous ragbag of loose concepts up for grabs to anyone who wants to call himself a Satanist.” The Satanic Scriptures- Rebels Without Cause (verdient het om vetgedrukt te worden)

“Those who wish to lead a drugged existence, whether the addicitve element is chemical or media, shall be recognized for the slaves that they are and held in contempt.” - The Satanic Scriptures: Satanism, The Feared Religion

“The true Satanist will deal with people as individuals, eschewing collectivist doctrines such as racism.” - The Satanic Scriptures: We Are Legion

“Idealism is one of the most dangerous practices to be found in our kind. It is the projection upon reality of an illusory “ought to be”, which in many prevents acknowledgement of what actually “IS”. - The Satanic Scriptures: A Primer for Fledgling Misanthropologists

“It has never been the goal of the Church of Satan to take its place among the other world religions, with dutiful followers and neatly labeled congregations. No, Satanism will permeate the societies of the globe as a secular lifestyle” - The Satanic Scriptures: The Tide Turns

“Culturally our philosophy promotes the idea that a diverse range of choices should be open to the aware individual. The availability of such options will always threaten tyrants who wish to force “infidels”, often on pain of death, towards conversion to their “One True Way”. It does not matter which deity is being depicted benignly spreading his or her arms for the forced followers. Satanists see this embrace as that offered by the “Virgin of Nuremberg” and we refuse it.”- The Satanic Scriptures: On Elaboration and Justice

Hogepriesteres Nadramia

” They’re the majority, and they’re not like us. We’ll always exist at the edges, finding our secret and forgotten places, moving on when the herd follows and wants to “fix it up.” “

Magister Nemo

“Satanism is not an advocate of beliefs, but of doubt which will hopefully lead to wisdom.”

“Satanism is not Scientism, Atheism, Darwinism, Dawkinism, Gnosticism, Objectivism nor any other “ism” that proclaims or implies absolute certainty. Relative certainty is practical. If evidence contradicts your assumptions and you are a Satanist you should be willing to change your assumptions. (…) Absolute certainty is nonsense. Pragmatism is where the rubber meets the road. ”

“Theistic Satanism” not only does not exist but is an oxymoron identical in spirit to “chaste coitus”.

“If most people took 10% of the time they spent gossiping about things that will never affect them and applied it to improving their situation, they would solve all of their problems in short order.”

Magister Svengali

“Satanists don’t have “invisible friends” “

“With very few exceptions, most “rock stars” should just “shut up and sing.” Really most of them should just shut up. ”

“Any belief in an immortal soul and an eternal afterlife determined by the judgement of an invisible god distorts every action of the believer. It is literally insane. Religion is a form of mass insanity, so pervasive that it is more expedient for the state to cater to it and exploit it than it is to remedy it, so it’s not going away anytime soon. The best you can hope for is to curtail its intrusion into your personal life, and into the political and legal structure of society as much as possible. Religion should be undermined by secular influences as much as possible.”

“Individualism and cooperation are not mutually exclusive.”

“Most people who claim to have actually read THE SATANIC BIBLE seem to have only looked at it for awhile lost in their own thoughts.”

Magistra Ygraine

“You and you alone are responsible for you, and if you deny that by granting acceptance to anything external you are forfeiting both your responsibility and your power. As for an after-life? Again, to live one’s life based on fear or hope or whatever should happen after death, you’re no longer in the living game. ”

“Conflict is the engine of creation. Conflict brings about change.”

Magistra Isabel

“A vast number of humans seem to be unprepared for life after 20 years….”

Magister Paradise

“Satanism is a Philosophy based upon the reality of carnal existence and living one’s life to its fullest. It rightfully champions mankind as being above his self-created gods and, as such, being totally responsible for his successes and failures. Like the mythological Lucifer’s transformation into the autonomous Satan, man’s penchant for exploration, independence, and drive shouldn’t be caged but, rather, exercised and applauded.”