Frightening Quotes by L. Ron Hubbard: Worrisome Words

"I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is."
"Make money. Make more money. Make other people produce so as to make more money."

Would a true profit - sorry, prophet - be this obsessed with making money? Obviously, all religions need money to function. Churches have collection plates and bake sales to raise money, and do sometimes ask for money for church services, the church would lose money if all the services were free. However, unlike Scientology, Christianity was not founded by someone looking to make money off the religion; Jesus was not in it for the money, only for the good of humanity.

"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 a tool used by Scientology auditors to determine how spiritually "alive" a person is. 2.0 is known as "chronic antagonism," and everyone at that level or below are thought to be dangerous to society. According to L. Ron Hubbard, someone who is homosexual falls under the category of "sexual perversion," which is at 1.1 on the tone scale. Hubbard wrote that "Homosexuals don't practice love; 1.1s can't."

What's even scarier is this quote:
"There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the tone scale, neither of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by unenturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."

"Somebody some day will say 'this is illegal.' By then be sure the orgs [Scientology organizations] say what is legal or not."

"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."

"A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable."

In other words, if someone speaks out against the church (or just leaves the church), that person doesn't have any rights, and the Church can do whatever they want to silence them without any consequence - this may sound ridiculous, the idea that an organization can attack someone and get away with it. The fact is, Scientology does this, and in court battles it's usually the victim that pays in the end - the victim being the Suppressive Person, not the Church, which likes to play the part of the victim. Scientology hides behind a mask of religion, and often plays the "hate" card when people protest or speak out against them.

"The names and connections, at this time, of the bitterly opposing enemy are: 1. Psychiatry and psychology (not medicine). 2. The heads of news media who are also directors of psychiatric front groups. 3. A few key political figures in the fields of "mental health" and education. 4. A decline of monetary stability caused by the current planning of bankers who are also directors of psychiatric front organizations [that] would make us unable to function."

Note that Hubbard said psychiatry as an "opposing enemy." Not an evil industry, but an opponent to Scientology. This is because psychiatry is merely a competing industry; Scientology was founded as a self-help program, an alternative to psychiatry which is supposed to be more effective (but is only more expensive). This is why Scientology aggressively tries to discredit psychiatry with its front group, the CCHR.

"They smell of all the baths they didn't take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here."
"Don't break your back scrubbing floors. Get yourself a nigger, that's what they were born for."

Do these really need an explanation?

"The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."

"Therefore we really do have the remedy before the assault weapon is produced. Did you ever read poor old George Orwell's uh.. 1984? Yes, yes, that's wonderful. That would be, could be, the palest imagined shadow of what a world would be like under the rule of the secret use of Scientology with no remedy in existence."