"Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!" - L. Ron Hubbard, Philadelphia Doctorate Course Lectures % "Show me any person who is critical of us and I'll show you crimes and intended crimes that would stand a magistrate's hair on end." - L. Ron Hubbard, HCOB 4 April 1965 % "Somebody some day will say 'this is illegal'. By then be sure the orgs say what is legal or not." - L. Ron Hubbard, HCOPL 4 January 1966 % "This is the correct procedure: 1) Spot who is attacking us. 2) Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies. 3) Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. 4) Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press. 5) Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way." - L. Ron Hubbard, HCOPL 25 February 1966 % "MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY." - L. Ron Hubbard, HCOPL 9 March 1972, MS OEC 384 % "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, Letter to South African Apartheid Government, 1960 % "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them." - L. Ron Hubbard, Technique 88 % "They smell of all the baths they didn't take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here." - L. Ron Hubbard (Diary) % "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." - L. Ron Hubbard, 15 August 1967 % "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, The Manual of Justice % "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, The Manual of Justice % "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly." - L. Ron Hubbard, A Manual on the Dissemination of Material, 1955 % "Scientology ... is not a religion." - L. Ron Hubbard, The Creation of Human Ability, p. 251 % "MONEY! REPEAT MONEY! REPEAT MONEY! REPEAT MONEY!" - L. Ron Hubbard (re: the enormous income to be made from Scientology Missions International), transcribed confidential taped briefing % "There are men dead because they attacked us." - L. Ron Hubbard % "Benzedrine often helps a case run." - L. Ron Hubbard, The Intensive Processing Procedure, 1950 % "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." - L. Ron Hubbard, Journal of Scientology, Issue 1-G, 1952 % "Leukaemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukaemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukaemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water'." - L. Ron Hubbard, Journal of Scientology, Issue 15-G, 1953 % "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, 1959 % "You shouldn't be scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees. Get yourself a nigger; that's what they're born for." -- L. Ron Hubbard, _Letters_ % "The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world. He is probably impossible by any human standard." % "Do not engage in any rite, ceremony, practice, exercise, meditation, diet, food therapy or any similar occult, mystical, religious, naturopathic, homeopathic, chiropractic treatment or any other healing or mental therapy while on course without the express permission of the D of T, Case Supervisor and Ethics Officer." -L. Ron Hubbard, HCOPL 15 Dec. 1976R. Rev 25 July 1987. % "It gives me no displeasure to hear a virgin being raped. The lot of women is to be fornicated." -- L. Ron Hubbard % "The man on the cross! There was no Christ." -- L. Ron Hubbard % "In 1942 - December 17th or thereabouts - while training in Miami, Florida, I met a girl named Ginger who excited me. She was a very loose person but pretended a great love for me. From her I received an infection of gonnohorea (sp?)." - L. Ron Hubbard, Affirmations % "I have a very bad masturbatory history. I was taught when I was 11 and, despite guilt, fear of insanity, etc. etc. I persisted. At a physical examination at a Y when I was about 13, the examiner and the people with him called me out of the line because my testicles hung low and cautioned me about what would happen if I kept on masturbating. This "discovery" was a bad shock to me. " - L. Ron Hubbard, "Affirmations", 1947 % "Ancient Egypt, if you care to look it up on the track, was a combination of Earth and space opera all mixed up as one. As the high Pharaoh stands on the side of the pyramid and blesses the multitude, he has to be careful that his cloak doesn't blow aside and reveal his ray gun." -- L. Ron Hubbard, "Responsibility and the State of OT Lecture Series," lecture 18 % "Polly was very bad for me sexually. Because of her coldness physically, the falsity of her pretensions, I believed myself a near eunuch between 1933 and 1936 or ? when I found I was attractive to other women. I had many affairs. But my failure to please Polly made me always pay so much attention to my momentary mate that I derived small pleasure myself. This was an anxiety neurosis which cut down my natural powers." - L. Ron Hubbard, personal affirmations % "By hypnosis I must be convinced as follows: [....] That masturbation was no sin or crime and did not injure me. That no sexual practice has ever dulled me.That things sexual thrill me. That I am now returned to the same feelings I had at 16 about sex where excitement is concerned. That naked women and pornography excite me greatly. That Sara excites me greatly and gives me much pleasure." -- L. Ron Hubbard, personal affirmations % "Your psychology is advanced and true and wonderful. It hypnotizes people. It predicts their emotions, for you are their ruler." -- L. Ron Hubbard, personal affirmations, speaking to himself %