'Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.' John 8:44
I think it was the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen who once wrote that the two chief hallmarks of a satanic regime were murder and lies.