The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.
L. Ron HubbardPeople who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.
L. Ron HubbardActually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.
L. Ron HubbardNow, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a barrier between the ability of a person to be self-determined and the condition he is in, and that is willingness to be controlled. As long as a person will resist control, then everything that comes along which threatens to control him can do so; and thus you have aberration. And until he has a total tolerance of control, he cannot be self-determined or pan-determined.
L. Ron Hubbard