The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
L. Ron HubbardThe handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists.
L. Ron HubbardThe 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.
L. Ron Hubbard