L. Ron Hubbard Quotes - Page 10

I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.

It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.

Always maintain good relations with your public.

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

It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.

For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

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

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

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.

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

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.

Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

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

I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for it is a lovely, vicious lonely thing. In its limitless variety I had a sort of HOME.

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

Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.

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