quotations
The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Kenaz Filan. Rochester Vt., Destiny Books, 2007. 283pp.
We may also want to ask ourselves why we must mock or dismiss others who do things differently, or why they mock us. Is it to “preserve the religion” or to feel superior? Far too often we find ourselves back in the pecking order of our elementary school playgrounds. We laugh at others in the hopes that by doing so no one will laugh at us. -page 8, end of direct quote
Desiderata Satanicus
“My worst enemies are those who presume me to be harmless. They cannot imagine how much I resent and disdain them, or just how great a threat they would face if I could get at them.
Everything in their behavior speaks of insult and presumptuousness, and for now it is all I can do to make constructive use of my anger toward them.
At this time, I just make a list of them and keep a watch on.
Some day, with the help of time, space, and circumstance, I will be able to humiliate them properly – not in a manner they would enjoy, but in a style calculated to make them wish that they had never been born.”
-Anton Szandor LaVey-
“If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I
came to live out loud.”
–Emile Zola
“Now as I chemically alter myself to sleep, it is not a fluffy bunny in my cold cold embrace.” -blue space goddess
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the
abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all
voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but
disastrous” – Thomas Merton
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” — Sarah Williams
“Magic uses people,” said Rincewind hurriedly. “It affects you as much as you affect it, sort of thing. You can’t mess around with magical things without it affecting you. I just thought I’d better warn you.”
-Terry Prachett, Sourcery
De Niro said this in Cape Fear:
“He (God) is as small as me and I as great as him”.
- Silesius
The average American is here to serve one purpose: Keep Corporate America
swimming in cash.That’s it. And the machine is designed to keep it that way.
The average American is not concerned about the world he or she lives in.
Whether the ice caps are melting, who the President is slaughtering and why,
whether there will be jobs and decent health care in the future. No, these
are not the things that keep Joe Sixpack And Sally Soccermom awake at night.
Rather they are concerned about who will be voted off the Island, Who will
be the next American Idol, and will Wal Mart have the next season of Lost on
DVD for sale? So Heaven or Hell?…What do you think?
Leo of GonzoSatanism.com
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion -
when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission
from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to
those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get
richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect
you against them, but protect them against you – when you see
corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice -
you may know that your society is doomed.”
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982), Atlas Shrugged, Francisco’s “Money Speech”
