L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, better known as L. Ron Hubbardand often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. In 2014, Hubbard was cited by the Smithsonian magazine as one of the 100 most significant Americans of all time, as one of the eleven religious figures on that list. After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a system called...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth13 March 1911
CityTilden, NE
CountryUnited States of America
You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.
One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.
Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.
They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.
Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.
An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.
The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.
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.
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who ... seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists.
Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.