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Anton LaVey

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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.

 
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I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.

 
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