L Ron Hubbard Quotes

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy. Done, the thetan can do anything a stage magician can do in the way of moving objects around. But this isn't attained by holding one's breath or thinking right thoughts or voting Republican or any other superstitous or mystic practice. So for the reason I brought up, rule out, auditor, any mumbo jumbo or mysticism, spiritualism, or religion. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect 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. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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

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. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves ... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION! ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people. ~ Jenna Miscavige Hill

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. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Boldness in itself is genius. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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! ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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 happens 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. Nobody is doing anything with it. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. Conqueror of Psychlos.' Brown Limper spat on the bill.
He suddenly seized the bill and tore it frantically into little pieces.
Then he threw the pieces around with angry gestures.
After that he gathered them all up again and, with a set, malevolent expression on his face, burned them.
Then he pulverized the ashes with his fist. But somebody came in soon after and said with a delighted smile, "Have you seen the new bank note?" And waved one!
Brown Limper rushed out of the room and found a place to vomit. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Life without her would be an endless succession of purposeless days lived with a heavy hopelessness ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Through our hardest times we have endured. Into our brightest times we are expanding. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these two goats [Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard]. ~ Aleister Crowley

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk ... A very faint kind of language. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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

Come on now, laddie," Dunneldeen said. "Just hold on and they'll pull you up to the plane. 'Tis a wee bit cold for a swim. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Communication is the universal solvent. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

In fact, you don't have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body or your mind. You are you. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Life in its highest state is understanding. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The best way to know any future is to cause one. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

One cannot hold power and not use it. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

In what can a person become entrapped? Ideas. Ideas of disability are first and foremost in entrapment. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything. ~ Quincy Jones

The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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

Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Men who know are secure and Men who don't know believe in luck. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Seeking a woman who looks like a feminized version of L. Ron Hubbard to help me decode intergalactic messages that I might receive on my Alien Communication Helmet. And after we receive and decode the messages, this female friend could help me make spaghetti with my aforementioned Alien Communication Helmet (it's basically a strainer with antennas). Please don't send me telepathic thoughts, as it might disrupt transmissions from other galaxies. E-mail only if interested. ~ Jarod Kintz

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe ... primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness ... ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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Now I must admit that "Battlefield Earth" is a book with something for everyone, all the way across the cultural scale from people who need doorstops to people who want to start bonfires. ~ David Langford

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! ~ L. Ron Hubbard

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper! ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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

Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect, ~ L. Ron Hubbard

You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances ... and why he feels so barbarous ... ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

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

Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves. ~ L. Ron Hubbard