L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

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.

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

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

A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office worker. They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine. They are the machine itself.

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

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.

One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.

Are you making life or is life making you?

Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money... However you get them in or why, just do it.

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.