L'ron Hubbard Quotes & Sayings

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

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual. — 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

Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madman or something. But since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ — L. Ron Hubbard

Man is an endangered species. — L. Ron Hubbard

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out. — L. Ron Hubbard

We've got some new ways to make slaves here. — L. Ron Hubbard

Anything you shun will have won. — L. Ron Hubbard

The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in
striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology. — L. Ron Hubbard

A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent. — L. Ron Hubbard

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought. — L. Ron Hubbard

All the happiness you ever find lies in you. — L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns. — L. Ron Hubbard

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future. — 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

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others. — L. Ron Hubbard

Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily. — L. Ron Hubbard

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. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality. — L. Ron Hubbard

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers. — 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

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

Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. — L. Ron Hubbard

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. — L. Ron Hubbard

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything. — L. Ron Hubbard

And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it. — L. Ron Hubbard

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. — L. Ron Hubbard

Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color?
Have you ever committed culpable homicide?
Have you ever bombed anything?
Have you ever murdered anyone?
Have you ever kidnapped anyone? — L. Ron Hubbard

His valet! In the rush of getting him off, his clumsy damned valet had put the wrong boots on him. Oh, when he got home ... when he got home he would have the oaf punctured! Worse. Dragged through the streets and bitten to death by small children. — L. Ron Hubbard

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more. — L. Ron Hubbard

Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you. — L. Ron Hubbard

Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

The test of true competence is the end result. — 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

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

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

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. — 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

People leave because of their own overts and withholds. That is the factual fact and the hard-bound rule. A man with a clean heart can't be hurt. The man or woman who must must must become a victim and depart is departing because of his or her own overts and withholds. It doesn't matter whether the person is departing from a town or a job or a session. The cause is the same. — L. Ron Hubbard

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it. — L. Ron Hubbard

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you. — 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

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'. — L. Ron Hubbard

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works. — L. Ron Hubbard

I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism makes any more sense than Christianity, and I don't think Christianity makes any more sense than Scientology. But here's a guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who told all his friends, 'Look, I'm gonna start a religion, 'cause I can't make any money as a science fiction writer.' I mean, he admitted that publicly! At least with Jesus Christ, you can't go talk to the guy. — Howard Stern

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion. — 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

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

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

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

Music is indeed the Universal Language. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned. — L. Ron Hubbard

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION! — 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

When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort. — L. Ron Hubbard

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. — L. Ron Hubbard

It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical. — L. Ron Hubbard

The purpose of [a lawsuit] 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

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

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

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

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

I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away.
You won't always be here.
But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - The work was free. Keep it so. — 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

Morale is boosted to high highs by accomplishment. In fact, it can be demonstrated that production is the basis of morale. — L. Ron Hubbard

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one - and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them. — L. Ron Hubbard

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture. — L. Ron Hubbard

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch. — L. Ron Hubbard

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society. — 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

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

A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world — 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

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that? — L. Ron Hubbard

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation. — 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

My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead. — 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

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do. — L. Ron Hubbard

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. — L. Ron Hubbard

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy. — L. Ron Hubbard

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success. — L. Ron Hubbard

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown. — L. Ron Hubbard

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future. — L. Ron Hubbard

Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit. — L. Ron Hubbard

A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable. — L. Ron Hubbard

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

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. — L. Ron Hubbard

Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia
had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had
traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been reported to be
an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water. — L. Ron Hubbard

Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one's ability to decide and in one's decisions. — L. Ron Hubbard