L. Ron Hubbard

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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (13 March 1911 – 24 January 1986) American author, developer of Dianetics and founder of the Church of Scientology; father of Ron DeWolfe.


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Origins of Scientology

  • "I’d like to start a religion. That’s where the money is."
    • L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd Eshbach, in 1949; quoted by Eshbach in OVER MY SHOULDER: REFLECTIONS ON A SCIENCE FICTION ERA, Donald M. Grant Publisher. ISBN 1-880418-11-8, 1983
  • "Scientology...is not a religion."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, THE CREATION OF HUMAN ABILITY, ISBN 0884044300, 1954, p. 251
  • "I’m drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys."
    • L. Ron Hubbard in a 1967 letter to his wife, written during the period when he was creating Scientology’s secret "upper levels." (Bent Corydon, L. RON HUBBARD: MESSIAH OR MADMAN? Random House 1989, ISBN 0942637577)
  • "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."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, "Off the Time Track," lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418
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Scientology as a business

  • "MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 9 March 1972, MS OEC 384
  • "Let’s sell these people a piece of blue sky."
    • L. Ron Hubbard to an associate in 1950, soon after the opening of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation. (Jon Atack, A PIECE OF BLUE SKY: SCIENTOLOGY, DIANETICS AND L. RON HUBBARD EXPOSED, Lyle Stuart/Carol Publishing Group. 1990)
  • "Somebody some day will say ‘this is illegal.’ By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 4 January 1966, "LRH Relationship to Orgs"
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Attack critics of Scientology

  • "Our organizations are friendly. They are only here to help you."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, "Dianetic Contract" 23 May 1969
  • "There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING. 7 February 1965, reissued 27 August 1980
  • "If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 15 August 1960, Dept. of Govt. Affairs
  • "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, A MANUAL ON THE DISSEMINATION OF MATERIAL, 1955
  • "When we need somebody haunted we investigate…When we investigate we do so noisily always."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, MANUAL OF JUSTICE, 1959
  • "This is the correct procedure: Spot who is attacking us. Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies. Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press. Don’t ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 25 February 1966
  • "People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, MANUAL OF JUSTICE, 1959
  • "So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, MANUAL OF JUSTICE, 1959
  • "ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed." (SP = Suppressive Person a.k.a. critic of Scientology)
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 18 October 1967
  • "The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations.
  • This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 21 October 1968, "Cancellation of Fair Game"
  • "A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 1 March 1965, HCO (Division 1) "Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists"
  • "When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia [sic] and bribe the police."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 12 February 1967, "The Responsibilities of Leaders"


  • "The names and connections, at this time, of the bitterly opposing enemy are: 1. Psychiatry and psychology (not medicine). 2. The heads of news media who are also directors of psychiatric front groups. 3. A few key political figures in the fields of "mental health" and education. 4. A decline of monetary stability caused by the current planning of bankers who are also directors of psychiatric front organizations [that] would make us unable to function."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 16 February 1969, "TARGETS, DEFENSE"
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China

  • "They smell of all the baths they didn’t take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here."
    • L. Ron Hubbard’s diary, 1928. (Jon Atack, A PIECE OF BLUE SKY: SCIENTOLOGY, DIANETICS AND L. RON HUBBARD EXPOSED. Lyle Stuart/Carol Publishing Group 1990)
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In favor of Apartheid

  • "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."
    • L. Ron Hubbard in a letter to H.F. Verwoerd (widely considered to be the architect of South Africa’s apartheid system) dated November 7, 1960, reprinted in K.T.C. Kotzé, INQUIRY INTO THE EFFECTS AND PRACTICES OF SCIENTOLOGY, p. 59, Pretoria 1973
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Brainwashing

  • "Benzedrine often helps a case run." ("Run a case" = administer Dianetics or Scientology procedures to someone)
    • L. Ron Hubbard, "The Intensive Processing Procedure," 1950
  • "When somebody enrolls, consider he or she has joined up for the duration of the universe - never permit an ‘open-minded’ approach... If they enrolled, they’re aboard, and if they’re aboard they’re here on the same terms as the rest of us - win or die in the attempt. Never let them be half minded about being Scientologists... When Mrs. Pattycake comes to us to be taught, turn that wandering doubt in her eye into a fixed, dedicated glare… The proper instruction attitude is, ‘We'd rather have you dead than incapable.’"
    • L. Ron Hubbard, KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING, 7 February 1965, reissued 27 August 1980
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Psychiatry

  • "A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [sic] her (5) use her sexually (6) sterilise her to prevent conception (7) kill her by a brain operation to prevent disclosure. And all with no fear of reprisal. Yet it is rape and murder… We want at least one bad mark on every psychiatrist in England, a murder, an assault, or a rape or more than one… This is Project Psychiatry. We will remove them."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Sec ED, Office of LRH, Confidential, 22 February 1966, "Project Psychiatry"
  • "Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, 5 November 1967, "Critics of Scientology"
  • "’Psychiatry’ and ‘psychiatrist’ are easily redefined to mean ‘an anti-social enemy of the people‘. This takes the kill crazy psychiatrist off the preferred list of professions...The redefinition of words is done by associating different emotions and symbols with the word than were intended...Scientologists are redefining ‘doctor‘, ‘Psychiatry’ and ‘psychology’ to mean ‘undesirable antisocial elements‘...The way to redefine a word is to get the new definition repeated as often as possible. Thus it is necessary to redefine medicine, psychiatry and psychology downward and define Dianetics and Scientology upwards. This, so far as words are concerned, is the public opinion battle for belief in your definitions, and not those of the opposition. A consistent, repeated effort is the key to any success with this technique of propaganda."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 5 October 1971, PR Series 12, "Propaganda by Redefinition of Words"


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Anybody not in upper Scientology levels can be killed

  • "We're playing for blood, the stake is EARTH."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 7 November 1962
  • "In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, 1989 Ed., p. 145 [The "Tone Scale" is Scientology’s measure of mental and spiritual health.]
  • "There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
  • "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."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
  • "A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 171
  • "Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 159
  • "In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, "Ron's Journal" 1967


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Promises of Scientology

  • Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY TECHNICAL DICTIONARY, copyright 1975, reprinted 1987, p. 370
  • "Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, "Journal of Scientology," Issue 1-G, 1952
  • "Leukaemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukaemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukaemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase ‘It turns my blood to water.’"
    • L. Ron Hubbard, "Journal of Scientology," Issue 15-G, 1953
  • "Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH, 1987 Ed., p. 72
  • "Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, ALL ABOUT RADIATION, p. 109
  • "You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, "Eyesight and glasses," "Dianetic Auditor’s Bulletin," Vol. 2, No. 7, January 1952
  • "The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…"
    • L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, November 1970, "Psychosis"
  • "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."
    • L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENTOLOGY: A HISTORY OF MAN, 1952
  • "Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself."
    • L. Ron Hubbard speaking of his Operating Thetan Courses, Flag Mission Order 375
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Sourced

  • A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
    • Science of Survival
  • All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps they’re bad, it’s only evident they’re codes. Mores bind the race. Coaction then occurs. Thought and motion in accord. A oneness then of purpose and survival so results. But now against that code there is transgression. And so because the code was held, whatever code it was, and man sought comfort in man’s company, he held back his deed and so entered then the bourne in which no being laughs or has a freedom in his heart.
    • Hubbard Communication Office Bulletin Clean Hands Make a Happy Life
  • Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
    • The Factors
  • 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.
    • A New Slant on Life
  • Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
    • The Creation of Human Ability
  • There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
    • Lecture, Scientology and Effective Knowledge
  • To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
    • A New Slant on Life
  • You would not tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
    • Article, Times Must Change
  • There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone.
    • Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
  • Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.
    • Science of Survival
  • Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.
    • Science of Survival
  • The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.
    • Dianetics 55!
  • Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game—interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.
    • Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
  • A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
    • Lecture, Politics
  • I have lived no cloistered life and hold in contempt the wise man who has not lived and the scholar who will not share. There have been many wiser men than I, but few have traveled as much road. I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
    • Article, My Philosophy
  • I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.
    • Article, My Philosophy
  • On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.
    • A New Slant on Life
  • Lurking, that lovely spring day, in the office of Dr. Chalmers, Atworthy College Medical Clinic, there might have been two small spirits of the air, pressed back into the dark shadow behind the door, avoiding as far as possible the warm sunlight which fell gently upon the rug.
    • Fear (1951) Ch 1, first lines
  • there is no war not based on lies,
    there is no infamy alive without
    its kindred kin, deceit.
    • There Is No Compromise With Truth (1953 or 1954)
  • You are a spirit, then,
    you Man, and not a Man
    at all.
    You are a spirit and you dwell
    within the guts of mortal beast.
    • There Is No Compromise With Truth (1953 or 1954)
  • You are a spirit, then
    a god,
    full capable
    of making space
    and energy and time
    and all things well.
    And there you crouch, forgotten
    to yourself and hidden from
    the eyes of all
    pretending there to be
    a beast
    that walks and eats and dies.
    • There Is No Compromise With Truth (1953 or 1954)
  • A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.
    • Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (1 March 1965) HCO (Division 1) "Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists"
  • I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
  • ENEMY SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.
    • Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (18 October 1967) SP is an abbreviation for "Suppressive Person" (a critic of Scientology)
  • The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations.
    This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.
    • Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (21 October 1968) "Cancellation of Fair Game"
  • MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.
    • Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (9 March 1972)
  • "Man," said Terl, "is an endangered species."
    • Battlefield Earth (1982) Ch 1
  • In these days of bad and alarming literature that teaches violence and fantasy to our young, it is with pleasure that I accept the invitation to write a forward to this extravagant and overly imaginative work.
    • Mission Earth "Voltarian Censor's Foreword" Vol 1
  • Hi there!
    I am 54 Charlee Nine, the Robotbrain in the Translatophone, and in accordance with the Royal Publishing Code (Section 8) which states that "Any work published in a language other than the original shall be so identified in an introduction by the licensed translatophone," I am delighted to take this opportunity to give this account of how I translated Mission Earth into your language—and, quite frankly, it wasn't easy.
    • Mission Earth "Voltarian Translator's Preface" Vol 1
  • Now I hope you understand this, because I've never been able to make head nor tail of it[calculus]. It must be some sort of a Black Magic operation, started out by the Luce cult -- some immoral people who are operating up in New York City, Rockefeller Plaza -- been thoroughly condemned by the whole society. Anyway, their rate-of-change theory -- I've never seen any use for that mathematics, by the way -- I love that mathematics, because it -- I asked an engineer, one time, who was in his 6th year of engineering, if he'd ever used Calculus, and he told me yeah, once, once I did, he said. When did you use it? And he said I used it once. Let me see, what did you use it on? Oh yeah. Something on the rate-of-change of steam particles in boilers. And then we went out and tested it and found the answer was wrong.
    • Philadelphia Doctorate Course, Tape #58 [1]
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Attributed

  • A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
  • A person with amnesia is looked upon as ill. What of a person who can remember only this life? Is this then not a case of amnesia on a grand scale?
  • All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth.
  • As a society declines, it more and more resorts to authoritarian teaching and attempts increasingly to impress on the individual that he must adjust to his environment and that he cannot adjust his environment to him. The educational process becomes one of semi-hypnotically receiving doughy masses of data and regurgitating them upon examination papers. Reason and self-determinism are all but forbidden.
  • Communication is the universal solvent.
  • Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.
  • Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game—interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.
  • Don’t ever try to stop truth. It’s the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.
  • Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free— he is his own trap.
  • How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.... But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows.
  • Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.
  • If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.
  • Man has in his hands a lot of violent weapons. He doesn't have the moral standards to go with them.
  • Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapped more or less in a mind which is in a body. That is Homo sapiens.
  • Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.
  • Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.
  • Perhaps it is natural that anyone who offered help would also be fought at first. Man is so used to fighting, so used to being fooled.
  • Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
  • Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.
  • The best way to know any future is to cause one. And that’s why, you see, when you start consulting the oracle at Delphi, you’ve taken a step downhill. You have assigned cause for the future elsewhere...
    So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn’t a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happen to be combining.
    You talk about virgin territory— the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it.
  • The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
  • The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
  • 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.
  • The future will tell more than I could about the value of my work.
  • The way out is the way through
  • The work was free. Keep it so.
  • There are few strong new forces in the world today. Man’s civilization is tired, fed up with war, poverty and crime.
  • There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.
  • There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
  • There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself. And when you lose that confidence, you've lost the only security you can have. ... Self-confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that, he's got the universe in his pocket. And when he hasn't got that, not all the pearls in China nor all the grain and corn in Iowa can give him security, because that's the only security there is.
  • There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions.
  • Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.
  • To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. [But] in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem— the human soul— for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.
  • We are slowly and carefully teaching the unholy a lesson. It is as follows: We are not a law enforcement agency. BUT we will become interested in the crimes of people who seek to stop us. If you oppose scientology we promptly look up— and find and expose— your crimes. If you leave us alone we will leave you alone.
    It's very simple. Even a fool can grasp that.
    And don't underrate our ability to carry it out.
  • When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you’re in good shape.
  • You can't have a civilization without able citizens. Five morons do not make a genius.
  • You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.
  • You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
    • As quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz which states that Hubbard declared this in response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on 7 November 1948.

Variants include:

      • Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion! ~ Reported to Mike Jittlov by Theodore Sturgeon as a statement Hubbard made while at the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society clubhouse.
      • Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion. ~ As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (27 August 1978)
      • Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. ~ As quoted in the article "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult" by by Eugene H. Methvin. Reader's Digest (May 1980)
      • The incident is stamped indelibly in my mind because of one statement that Ron Hubbard made. What led him to say what he did I can't recall—but in so many words Hubbard said: "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is!" ~ Lloyd Arthur Eshbach in his autobiograpy Over My Shoulder: Reflections of the Science Fiction Era (1983)
      • I always knew he was exceedingly anxious to hit big money— he used to say he thought the best way to do it would be to start a cult. ~ Sam Merwin, Editor of Thrilling Science Fiction magazine Winter of 1946-47; quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller
      • Whenever he was talking about being hard up he often used to say that he thought the easiest way to make money would be to start a religion. ~ Neison Himmel, briefly a roommate of Hubbard in Pasedena during the fall of 1945, in a 1986 interview, quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller
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Quotes of others about Hubbard

  • In addition to violating and abusing its own members' civil rights, the organization [Scientology] over the years with its "Fair Game" doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and the bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH [L. Ron Hubbard]. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. At the same time it appears that he is charismatic and highly capable of motivating, organizing, controlling, manipulating, and inspiring his adherents. ~ Superior Court Judge Paul Breckinridge, Church of Scientology of California vs. Gerald Armstrong (20 June 1984)
  • My father has always held out Scientology and auditing to be based purely on science and not on religious "belief" or faith. We regularly promised and distributed publications with "scientific guarantees". This was and has always been common practice. My father and I created a "religious front" only for tax purposes and legal protection 'from fraud Claims'. We almost always told nearly everyone that Scientology was really science, not a religion, but that the religious front was created to deal with the government. ~ Ron DeWolfe eldest son of Hubbard (born L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.)
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