L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

Through our hardest times we have endured. Into our brightest times we are expanding.

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

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.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you

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.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

Scientology...is not a religion.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

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

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

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

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

There's only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!

Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data.

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

Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.

An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.

Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.

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.

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.

I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve.

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

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

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

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

Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled. So people can fall down: it doesn’t mean they can’t get up again and keep going.

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

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.

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

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.

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

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

Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

Always maintain good relations with your public.

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.