Top 250 L. Ron Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

102. “A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

103. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

104. “The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

105. “You want to raise your child in such a way that you don’t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

107. “Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

108. “Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

109. “Anything you shun will have won.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

111. “Men who know are secure. Men who don’t know believe in luck.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

112. “An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they’re fun is a very sane person.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

113. “The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

114. “Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

116. “Today’s children will become tomorrow’s civilization.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

117. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

119. “You make New Year’s resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don’t keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren’t weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

120. “The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

121. “People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

122. “It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

123. “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

124. “The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

125. “As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

126. “The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you’ve improved about all there is to improve about a person.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

127. “There’s only one remedy for crime – get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!”

— L. Ron Hubbard

128. “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

129. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

130. “Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

131. “Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

132. “That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

133. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

134. “Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one’s knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

135. “Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

136. “Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

138. “Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

140. “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

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

142. “One cannot be able in life by fearing to live.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

143. “Living is having and following a purpose. That’s all.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

144. “Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

146. “One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you’ll find out that people don’t know that. They think that less awareness is the road out – and that is the road down into the basement.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

147. “Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer!”

— L. Ron Hubbard

148. “If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

149. “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

150. “They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.”

— L. Ron Hubbard