Ruthless Quotes

“So, early in his career, David acquired status as a messenger. He also acquired
a taste for power. Messengers already had a certain amount of altitude and
therefore power, quite a bit actually; they even had authority over longtime
Scientologists, many of whom had been in Scientology for decades and had
reached its highest levels of auditor training, executive status, and auditing
advancement. This was probably a big mistake on Hubbard’s part, since it meant
that young people without a lot of Scientology experience were making
important decisions based on their position as Commodore’s Messengers but not
a lot of personal experience with Scientology, its technology or administrative
policy. The value of status over experience was a lesson David absorbed early
on, and it became encoded in his DNA. Looking back on it now, I am sure that
this is when he began to change.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“During this second stay, David was a good student in school and got along with others so long as they left him alone. Because he was small, he sometimes got bullied. He wouldn't take it and punched out any kid who picked on him.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“for my whole life I have believed that, regardless of the hand we are dealt, each of us chooses how we play our cards.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“When you stop dreaming, you die a little, a wise man once said.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“Many people become interested in Scientology because they have something personal they want to deal with, but when they see it working for them, they think, Hey, this is something that might help a lot of people. Let me do everything I can to help.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“A philosophy is just a philosophy. Nearly everybody follows someone else’s way of dealing with life or makes up their own or creates a blend of the two.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“Sea Org members become cynical after a few of these painful experiences and adopt the unwritten motto of the Sea Org: “There is never time to do it right but always time to do it twice.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“In other words, my schedule had always been my own. I was a free spirit and an entrepreneur. This, I knew, would change when I joined the Sea Organization.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“People did not know any other way to live. They were born in to it, and that was life.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“I came up with a theory: pain must need your attention to exist. If you can direct your attention away from the pain, it can’t continue to exist.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“Nelson Mandela spoke the God’s honest truth when he said that holding on to anger is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“When you stop dreaming, you die a little, a wise man once said. Is”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“Rather than concentrating on the substance of Scientology, the church today is focused merely on appearances. It just demands donations to fund fancy buildings, which other former church members have documented as being largely empty.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“Hold on a minute, I thought to myself, there is something really, really wrong here. That he would have me followed and allow me to die—this guy treasures his position of wealth and power above the relationship with a father. That was hard to face. This”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“That is authoritarianism and it quickly becomes a cult, which is what Scientology is today. Ever”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

“A person can choose to live a fruitful, productive life helping people, and I firmly believe that you get the most benefit out of life that way. If you begin doing evil stuff, it is going to come back to you somehow. If there is one point where I think Scientology falls down it is this: Hubbard stated time and time again that Scientology was a scientific approach to the mind and life.”
― Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me