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“To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.”

“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

"Times Must Change" in Ability # 179 (20 March 1966).

“Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Dianetics And Scientology Technical Dictionary (1975); 1987 edition, p. 370.

“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (7 November 1948), as quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz. This statement is similar or identical to several statements http://www.bible.ca/scientology-1million-start-a-religion.htm Hubbard is reported to have made to various individuals or groups in the 1940s. Variants include: The incident is stamped indelibly in my mind because of one statement that Ron Hubbard made. What led him to say what he did I can't recall — but in so many words Hubbard said: "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is!" L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd A. Eshbach, in 1949; as quoted by Eshbach in his autobiography Over My Shoulder: Reflections On A Science Fiction Era (1983) ISBN 1-880418-11-8 . Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion! As reported to Mike Jittlov by Theodore Sturgeon as a statement Hubbard made while at the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society clubhouse in the 1940s. Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (27 August 1978) Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. As quoted in the article "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult" by Eugene H. Methvin. Reader's Digest (May 1980). I always knew he was exceedingly anxious to hit big money — he used to say he thought the best way to do it would be to start a cult. Sam Merwin, Editor of Thrilling Science Fiction magazine Winter of 1946-47; quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller Whenever he was talking about being hard up he often used to say that he thought the easiest way to make money would be to start a religion. Neison Himmel, briefly a roommate of Hubbard in Pasadena during the fall of 1945, in a 1986 interview, quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller.

“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

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.

“Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.”

L. Ron Hubbard book Science of Survival

Science of Survival (1951)
Context: Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.

L. Ron Hubbard Quotes about people

“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

"Assists" lecture, #10 in the confidential Class VIII series of lectures (3 October 1968).

“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 book Science of Survival

Source: Science of Survival (1951), p. 170.

“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

Philadelphia Doctorate Course, Tape #58 (November 1952) http://www.rr.cistron.nl/xenu/quotes.htm.

“"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

"Propaganda by Redefinition of Words" (5 October 1971).
Scientology Policy Letters

“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

Manual Of Justice (1959).

“Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free — he is in his own trap.”

L. Ron Hubbard

"Honest People Have Rights, Too" (8 February 1960).
Scientology Bulletins

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

L. Ron Hubbard

In answer to the question as to whether he ever thought he might be quite mad. Granada Television documentary on Scientology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_w-YWwC1lI#t=1503.

“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

“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

A letter to his wife Polly (October 1938) http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/excalibur.htm, quoted in Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 81 http://www.discord.org/~lippard/bfm/bfm05.htm#81. Context: 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 Quotes

“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."”

L. Ron Hubbard

All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use. My Philosophy (1965) http://www.foundingchurchdc.org/dc/ref/philo/index.htm.

“Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.”

L. Ron Hubbard

“Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ.”

L. Ron Hubbard

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.
Philadelphia Doctorate Courses, lecture 24 (1952).

“The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.”

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

A New Slant on Life (1998).

“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

Dianetics 55! (1954).

“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 book Science of Survival

Source: Science of Survival (1951), p. 159.

“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

Dept. of Govt. Affairs (15 August 1960).
Scientology Policy Letters

“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

1987 Edition, p. 72.
Dianetics : The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)

“A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.”

L. Ron Hubbard book Science of Survival

Science of Survival (1951)

“There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology Policy Letters

“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 Dianetics

Dianetics (1952).

“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

My Philosophy (1965) http://www.ronthephilosopher.org/phlspher/page84.htm.

“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.”

L. Ron Hubbard

The Creation Of Human Ability (1954).

“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

"Times Must Change" in Ability # 179 (20 March 1966) http://www.able.org/about/l-ron-hubbard/articles/times-must-change.php.

“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 book Science of Survival

The "Tone Scale" is Scientology's measure of mental and spiritual health; p. 145.
Science of Survival (1951)

“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 Keeping Scientology Working

"Keeping Scientology Working" (7 February 1965).
Scientology Policy Letters

“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

Confidential memo "Project Psychiatry" (22 February 1966).

“Man," said Terl, "is an endangered species.”

L. Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth

Battlefield Earth (1982) Ch 1.

“There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Lecture, Scientology and Effective Knowledge (15 July 1957).

“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 book Science of Survival

Science of Survival (1951)

“In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.”

L. Ron Hubbard

"Ron's Journal" (1967).

“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

A letter to his wife Polly (October 1938), quoted in Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987), p. 81.

“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

Scientology : The Fundamentals of Thought (1973).
Scientology Bulletins

“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

"Why Feel Guilty?" (1969) http://www.lronhubbard.org/philo1/guilty5.htm.

“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

On his Operating Thetan Courses, in Flag Mission Order 375 (1970).

“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

On Scientology in Scientology: A History Of Man (1952).

“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

A Manual on the Dissemination of Material (1955).

“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

"There Is No Compromise With Truth" ( a poem written in 1953 or 1954).

“There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Kingman Brewster, Jr.‎.
Misattributed

“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

Scientology Policy Letters

“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

Journal of Scientology Issue 1-G, (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 book Science of Survival

Science of Survival (1951)

“Benzedrine often helps a case run.”

L. Ron Hubbard

"The Intensive Processing Procedure" (1950); "Run a case" = administer Dianetics or Scientology procedures to someone.

“When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Manual Of Justice (1959).

“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

The Basic Dictionary of Dianetics and Scientology (1988), p. 34.

“There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Dianetics : The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)

“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.”

L. Ron Hubbard

Opening line.
Dianetics : The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)

“We're playing for blood, the stake is EARTH.”

L. Ron Hubbard

(7 November 1962).
Scientology Policy Letters

“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

Saint Hill Special Briefing Course 35 (19 July 1961).

“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

Journal of Scientology Issue 15-G (1953).

“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 book Science of Survival

Source: Science of Survival (1951), p. 170.

“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

"There Is No Compromise With Truth" ( a poem written in 1953 or 1954).

“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

"Clean Hands Make a Happy Life" (5 October 1961).
Scientology Bulletins

“Certainty, not data, is knowledge.”

L. Ron Hubbard

The Factors (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

"Cancellation of Fair Game" (21 October 1968).
Scientology Policy Letters

“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

"The Responsibilities of Leaders" (12 February 1967) ( Bulgravia http://solitarytrees.net/racism/bulgrav1.htm is an acronym of BULgaria, GReece, Albania and YugoslaVIA]. Scientology Policy Letters

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

L. Ron Hubbard

"The Cause of Crime" (6 May 1982).
Scientology Bulletins

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

L. Ron Hubbard

"Ethics, Suppressive Acts, Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists" (1 March 1965).
Scientology Policy Letters

“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

Manual Of Justice (1959).