Top 250 L. Ron Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Scientology is a power-and-money-and-intelligence-gathering game.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

203. “Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

204. “Oh yes as a matter of fact it’s quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

205. “Through our hardest times we have endured. Into our brightest times we are expanding.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

206. “A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

207. “The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in himself and his own pride of goodness and his own pride of being and his own honor who is dangerous.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

208. “Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

209. “You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

210. “As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

211. “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

212. “Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

213. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

214. “Those small brown men who sell their sisters on the streets of Cairo were once the mighty Egyptians.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

215. “We’ve got some new ways to make slaves here.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

216. “When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can’t solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

217. “Life without her would be an endless succession of purposeless days lived with a heavy hopelessness.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

218. “Now we say there’s, well, another place in the world-there’s India. Wonderful place – except for its people.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

219. “Well I don’t know that I’m okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one – I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

220. “You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we’ll have cleared chinks.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

221. “The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

223. “If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn’t know what it’s trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

224. “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

225. “You can get a much better fee – I tell you as auditors quite frankly – it’s much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who’s on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

226. “The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

228. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

229. “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

230. “Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

231. “A bitter hatred was lifting his lip from his teeth.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

232. “How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

233. “There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young – 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don’t make nothin’.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

234. “You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

235. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

236. “Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere’s lights go out.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

237. “The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

238. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

239. “My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I am finger worn to the second joint and then to hammer keys some more. To pile up copy, stack up stories, roll the wordage and generally conduct my life along the one line of success I have ever had. I write.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

240. “I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

242. “Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

243. “Come on now, laddie,” Dunneldeen said. “Just hold on and they’ll pull you up to the plane. ‘Tis a wee bit cold for a swim.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

244. “China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

245. “Women find beauty in men only when they find strength; there’s something wrong with a woman when she falls in love with a fellow because he is pretty.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

246. “Freedom and ability can be seen to be somewhat synonymous.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

247. “When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don’t have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I noticed today there is a tendency to mingle them, and then excuse the result by calling it imaginative fiction. Actually they don’t mix well. Science Fiction, to be credible, has to be based on some degree of plausibility, Fantasy gives you no limits at all. Writing Science Fiction demands care on the part of the author, writing Fantasy is as easy as strolling in the park.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

248. “I know the world is an evil, capricious place and that men are basically bad and so, knowing that, I am always pleased to find some atom of goodness and only bored to see something evil.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

249. “For whatever reason, efforts to improve oneself, to become happier in life, can become the subject of attacks. It is sometimes necessary to handle such directly. But there is a long-range handling that seldom fails. What, exactly, are such people trying to do to one? They are trying to reduce one downward.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

250. “Unless there is something to free men into, the act of freeing is simply a protest of slavery.”

— L. Ron Hubbard