L. Ron Hubbard: Man

L. Ron Hubbard was American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“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.”

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

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

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.

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

Dianetics 55! (1954).

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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

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

L. Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth

Battlefield Earth (1982) Ch 1.

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

"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.”

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

“I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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)

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

1987 Edition, p. 226.
Dianetics : The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)

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

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