Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you. L. Ron Hubbard More Quotes by L. Ron Hubbard More Quotes From L. Ron Hubbard I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys. L. Ron Hubbard rum popping drinking 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 confused giving-up book Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself. L. Ron Hubbard pain games play Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself. L. Ron Hubbard true-friend men world A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent. L. Ron Hubbard drawing steps way A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable. L. Ron Hubbard groups taken rights Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others. L. Ron Hubbard community reason firsts You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps. L. Ron Hubbard four glasses three When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort. L. Ron Hubbard marine yellow country 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. L. Ron Hubbard democracies-have self men Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see. L. Ron Hubbard cancer smoking running Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language. L. Ron Hubbard language kind baby In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves. L. Ron Hubbard broads universe men 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 hurt teacher school The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard. L. Ron Hubbard standards impossible world The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see? L. Ron Hubbard spheres australia people In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much. L. Ron Hubbard gun civilization people 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 hong-kong chinese hands It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical. L. Ron Hubbard ethical strong organization If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it. L. Ron Hubbard injustice violence doe