I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
Aleister CrowleyThis complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.
Aleister CrowleyThe pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister CrowleyTheir false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
Aleister CrowleyBut neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.
Aleister Crowley