L. Ron Hubbard

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.

Dianetics 55! (1954)., 1953

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

The Creation Of Human Ability (1954)., 1953

You are a spirit, then,you Man, and not a Manat all.You are a spirit and you dwellwithin the guts of mortal beast.

"There Is No Compromise With Truth" (a poem written in 1953 or 1954)., 1953

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.

p. 170., 1951

Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

p. 159., 1951

A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.

p. 171, 1951

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.

The "Tone Scale" is Scientology's measure of mental and spiritual health; p. 145., 1951

It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties — only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying "How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission."

Dianetics (1952)., 1950

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.

1987 Edition, p. 226., 1950

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

All About Radiation (1952) p. 109., 1950

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.

Lecture: "Off the Time Track" (June 1952) as quoted in Journal of Scientology issue 18-G, reprinted in Technical Volumes of Dianetics & Scientology Vol. 1, p. 418., 1950

This 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.

On Scientology in Scientology: A History Of Man (1952)., 1950

Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalog of illnesses goes away and stays away.

1987 Edition, p. 72., 1950

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

"Eyesight and glasses" in Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 7, (January 1952)., 1950

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (November 7, 1948), as quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz., 1948