L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.

Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data.

In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.

The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in himself and his own pride of goodness and his own pride of being and his own honor who is dangerous.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

Through our hardest times we have endured. Into our brightest times we are expanding.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

Scientology...is not a religion.

There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.

I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.

Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.

People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

The way out is the way through.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.

It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.

For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer.

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

Oh yes as a matter of fact it's quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.

Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble.

I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.