“We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.”
Anton LaVey
“The person sins, then blames Satan for it”
Afghan Proverb
“Satan is a slick character. To me, he's actually very appealing. He's not scary. That's kind of how sin is because it looks appealing and it looks harmless, but the consequences are there. It's a very powerful scene. There are even some demons and sufferers.”
Scarlett Knight
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
Mark Twain
“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent”
“Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.”
Voltaire
“Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements”
John Calvin