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Behind a large mountain
Beside a swift river
Within a dark forest,
Big bonfires are lit.
On benches around the fire,
These benches made of oak,
Men of renown on these benches seated
Famous men, beautiful ladies
Sing Kolada’s songs.
The Old Man in the center, seated
Grinds his knife of iron;
Boiling hot, boiling
With the goat nearby…
The time of sacrifice for the goat.
(From an ancient song)
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-
“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”
“Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men
who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without
thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of
its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a
physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a
struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it
never will.”
Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist
