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
This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.
If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.
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.
In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.
When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.
As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.
Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.
Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the history of man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very nonsurvival activity. Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble .
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.
Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madman or something. But since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ