Hubbard, L. Ron (L. Ron Hubbard)

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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?
-- 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

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps they
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

Communication is the universal solvent.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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.
-- 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
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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-- L. Ron Hubbard

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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

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

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

Man has in his hands a lot of violent weapons. He doesn't have the moral standards to go with them.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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

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.
-- 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

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

The best way to know any future is to cause one. And that
-- L. Ron Hubbard

So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn
-- L. Ron Hubbard

You talk about virgin territory
-- L. Ron Hubbard

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
-- L. Ron Hubbard

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual
-- L. Ron Hubbard

The future will tell more than I could about the value of my work.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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

The way out is the way through
-- L. Ron Hubbard

The work was free. Keep it so.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

There are few strong new forces in the world today. Man
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.
-- 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

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
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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

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
-- L. Ron Hubbard

It's very simple. Even a fool can grasp that.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

And don't underrate our ability to carry it out.
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When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you
-- L. Ron Hubbard

You can't have a civilization without able citizens. Five morons do not make a genius.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard