Quotes from L. Ron Hubbard

They use a fossil fuel in a most inefficient manner, even though I am certain that, even with their primitive technology, they know better. I think they may even hide efficiency inventions, as nobody could be that stupid.

When everybody is employed and working cheerfully, you can't help but have prosperity.

The total design of the legal system is wrecking people's lives so the lawyers can get rich.

to take State 123 and wind up in the Potomac River. He ignored directions to take US 495—which is really US 95 and bypasses Washington entirely. He even defeated the conspiracy to confuse the public on US 29 to believe they were on US 50. He steadfastly rolled along on US 29, even untangled the

It was the first time I had suspected that the government would ever do such a thing. Believe me, reader, it shook me. I had always been brought up carefully to believe that, in government, truth, decency and honor were inseparable.

If we regard power as a stream of water that yet can be beamed and focused, we can see that a central collection station in a country may receive the power from a source and then deflect and focus it to subreceivers which, in turn, can focus it upon consumption units.

laying out a standard planetary power-collection-and-distribution system using microwaves.

You could only be happy on the planet if you never read newspapers or listened to the news.

Imi place sa-i ajut pe altii si consider ca cea mai mare placere a vietii este sa vezi un om eliberat de umbrele care-i intuneca zilele. Aceste umbre par atat de dese si il apasa atat de mult, incat atunci cand descopera ca acestea sunt doar umbre si ca poate vedea prin ele si poate sta sub soare, el este nespus de incantat.

The fact is, it is life that handles force! Only life gives things direction. Matter cannot control matter—it has no intentions. Life is NOT a product of matter. It is its boss!

Anybody can sue anybody for anything in this country and usually does. There's a whole segment of the population that makes its living just suing anybody for anything they can dream up. It's pretty brutal.

all life is, is a series of consecutive risks joined together with hairs stood on end.

The answer is to decriminalize and to ignore drugs. They don't profit people then and nobody is interested.

Drugs are a rotten business. But when you pass a law against them they become

Psychiatrists use tortures you have never even heard of! They drug their patients and send huge jolts of electricity through their brains to destroy nerve responses! And that isn't all! At a whim, they take a steel probe, push it under the eyelids and scramble the prefrontal lobes! They have no intention of curing anyone. They are simply making it impossible for the victim to get well. Ever! AND THEY KNOW IT!

With peril a constant companion, a combat engineer took joy in life when he could and tended to shrug off dangers he considered minor.

Sometimes others seek to crush one down, to make nothing out of one's hopes and dreams, one's future and oneself.

the very idea of going to court is NOT done! It is not done at all, Jerome! It exposes one to public ridicule. It costs one respect! And you have got to get the idea you should be respected!

Today almost any person has a present time problem, growing more pressing as time goes on and as our society evolves. It is a simple question: 'How can I live?' The answer to this question in a broad general way can be found by attaining an understanding of a subject called Economics.

If an organization such as the Apparatus has the prime duty of undermining a civilization, it must be thorough. One must make the maximum amount of trouble for the maximum number of people for the minimum number of reasons. That rule holds good for governments, for governmental organizations and for government officers and agents.

Carnsarn ye for a pair of busted-down, walleyed, spavined ignorantipedes! Gettin' so a man can't even git ten winks on his own chuck wagon without you buzzard baits clownin' up!

And speaking of fight action, there is one place where Old Man Suspense can be made to work like an Elkton marrying parson.

The first thing they need is a fuel that doesn't pollute. The oil companies are insisting that everyone burn chemical-fire fuels that smoke and get soot and poison gases into the atmosphere. Until they have and are using a better energy source, it's useless to do anything else to salvage the planet.

Earth has been controlled by the man who owns the planet's fuel—Delbert John Rockecenter. His power is such that he can determine the political future of a country simply by making a telephone call to one of his minions.