Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
Aleister CrowleyA white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
Aleister CrowleyHe shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.
Aleister CrowleyFor pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
Aleister CrowleyThey look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.
Aleister Crowley