"The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church."

“The best fighter is never angry.”

“Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.”

Source : John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.124, Health Communications, Inc.

“In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.”

“Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.”

Source : Ezekiel Hopkins, Charles William Quick (1863). “Memoir of the author, and expositions of the Lord's prayer and the decalogue”, p.275

“You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.”

“I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.”

“It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.”

Source : 1969 TheWhole Bloody Bird,'Aphs'.

“How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.207, Rowman & Littlefield