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L. Ron Hubbard
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“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Reason Why" (May 15, 1956).
“Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dianetics And Scientology Technical Dictionary (1975); 1987 edition, p. 370.
“That stupid fucking kid! That stupid fucking kid! Look what he's done to me!”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After learning of his son Quentin Hubbard's suicide attempt in 1976, as quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah : The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 344; Quentin died a couple of weeks later, without ever regaining consci…
“Man," said Terl, "is an endangered species.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Battlefield Earth (1982) Ch 1.
“Scientology means scio, knowing in the fullest sense of the word, and logos, study. In itself the word means knowing how to know. Scientology is a 'route,' a way, rather than a dissertation or assertive body of knowledge. Through its drills and studies one may find the truth for himself. The technology is therefore not expounded as something to believe, but something to do.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Basic Dictionary of Dianetics and Scientology (1988), p. 34.
“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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A New Slant on Life (1998).
“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 (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A New Slant on Life (1998).
“On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A New Slant on Life (1998).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scientology: Clear Procedure - Issue One" (December 1957).
“Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free — he is in his own trap.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Honest People Have Rights, Too" (February 8, 1960).
“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. Co-action 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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clean Hands Make a Happy Life" (October 5, 1961).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Critics of Scientology" (November 5, 1967).
“The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Psychosis" (November 28, 1970).
“There's only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cause of Crime" (May 6, 1982).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dept. of Govt. Affairs (August 15, 1960).
“We're playing for blood, the stake is EARTH.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (November 7, 1962).
“There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keeping Scientology Working" (February 7, 1965).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Politics" (February 13, 1965).
“A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists" (March 1, 1965).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attacks on Scientology" (February 25, 1966).
“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 and bribe the police.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Responsibilities of Leaders" (February 12, 1967) (Bulgravia is an acronym of BULgaria, GReece, Albania and YugoslaVIA].
“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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Penalties for Lower Conditions" (October 18, 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 (1911–1986) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cancellation of Fair Game" (October 21, 1968).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Targets, Defense" (February 16, 1969).
“MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Principles of Money Management" (March 9, 1972).
“Rate of change is this mathematics known as Calculus. … Now I hope you understand this, because I've never been able to make head nor tail of it. 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.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Philadelphia Doctorate Course, Tape #58 (November 1952).
“No civilization can progress to the stability of continuous survival without certain and sure command of knowledge such as that contained in Dianetics. For Dianetics, skillfully used, can do exactly what it claims. It can, in the realm of the individual, prevent or alleviate insanity, neurosis, compulsions and obsessions and it can bring about physical well-being, removing the basic cause of some 70% of man's illnesses. It can, in the field of the family, bring about better accord and harmony. It can, in the field of nations or smaller groups such as those of industry, improve management to a point where these pitifully inadequate ideologies, for which men fight and die with such frightening earnestness, can be laid aside in favor of a workable technology.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anyway, Everyman is then shown to have been crucified so don't think that it's an accident that this crucifixion, they found out that this applied. Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 BC, found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madmen 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. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. So of course each person seeing a crucified man, has an immediate feeling of sympathy for this man. Therefore you get many PCs who says they are Christ. Now, there's two reasons for that, one is the Roman Empire was prone to crucify people, so a person can have been crucified, but in R6 he is shown as crucified.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Assists" lecture, #10 in the confidential Class VIII series of lectures (October 3, 1968).
“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 (1911–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Propaganda by Redefinition of Words" (October 5, 1971).