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L. Ron Hubbard
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“Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. 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. I turned the thing up so it's up to me to survive in a big way . . . Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, 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 (1911–1986) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A letter to his wife Polly (October 1938), quoted in Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 81.
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A letter to his wife Polly (October 1938), quoted in Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 81.
“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (November 7, 1948), as quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz.
“Benzedrine often helps a case run.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Intensive Processing Procedure" (1950); "Run a case" = administer Dianetics or Scientology procedures to someone.
“Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All About Radiation (1952) p. 109.
“It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties — only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying "How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dianetics (1952).
“You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eyesight and glasses" in Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 7, (January 1952).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture: "Off the Time Track" (June 1952) as quoted in Journal of Scientology issue 18-G, reprinted in Technical Volumes of Dianetics & Scientology Vol. 1, p. 418.
“This 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 (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Scientology in Scientology: A History Of Man (1952).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal of Scientology Issue 1-G, (1952).
“Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Philadelphia Doctorate Courses, lecture 24 (1952).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Philadelphia Doctorate Course" #15 (1952).
“The creation of Dianetics is a milestone for Man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the arch." Opening line.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A large proportion of allegedly feeble-minded children are actually attempted abortion cases . . . However many billions America spends yearly on institutions for the insane and jails for the criminals are spent primarily because of attempted abortions done by some sex-blocked mother to whom children are a curse, not a blessing of God . . . All these things are scientific facts, tested and rechecked and tested again.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalog of illnesses goes away and stays away.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1987 Edition, p. 72.
“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 (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1987 Edition, p. 226.
“There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal of Scientology Issue 15-G (1953).
“there is no war not based on lies, there is no infamy alive without its kindred kin, deceit.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There Is No Compromise With Truth" (a poem written in 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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There Is No Compromise With Truth" (a poem written in 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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There Is No Compromise With Truth" ( a poem written in 1953 or 1954).
“Scientology … is not a religion.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Creation Of Human Ability (1954), p. 251
“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Creation Of Human Ability (1954).
“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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dianetics 55! (1954).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Manual on the Dissemination of Material (1955).
“There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture, Scientology and Effective Knowledge (July 15, 1957).
“When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manual Of Justice (1959).
“People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organizations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 (1911–1986) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manual Of Justice (1959).
“Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saint Hill Special Briefing Course 35 (July 19, 1961).
“The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: "The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical." All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Philosophy (1965).
“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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Philosophy (1965).
“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 her (5) use her sexually (6) sterilize 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 (1911–1986) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Confidential memo "Project Psychiatry" (February 22, 1966).
“It is all very well to sit back and hope for "the best in this best of all possible worlds" but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Times Must Change" in Ability # 179 (March 20, 1966).
“Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even 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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Times Must Change" in Ability # 179 (March 20, 1966).
“In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ron's Journal" (1967).
“I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his wife (1967) as quoted in L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? (1989) by Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard, Jr (Ronald DeWolfe).
“Certainty, not data, is knowledge.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Factors (1967).
“Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In answer to the question as to whether he ever thought he might be quite mad. Granada Television World in Action documentary on Scientology (1967).
“Our organizations are friendly. They are only here to help you.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dianetic Contract" (May 23, 1969).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Feel Guilty?" (1969).
“Advanced Courses 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 (1911–1986) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his Operating Thetan Courses, in Flag Mission Order 375 (1970).