Bare-Faced Messiah Quotes

“Iwould say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“her first husband was a ‘genius with a misdirected mind’.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“If it’s not true for you, it’s not true.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed. That goal is the real goal as far as I am concerned…”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“Rogers was convinced that Parsons was trying to invoke a demon in order to despatch his rival, or harm him in some way. It clearly did not work, however, for Ron remained in the best of spirits.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“I believed the stories he told were true for him,”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“Those were his exact words, “an insatiable lust for power and money”.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“Truth is what is true for you.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“Scientology processing, which tended to produce subservience amounting almost to mental enslavement.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“People had a wonderful feeling with him of being in the presence of a great man.’[”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“Hubbard had this incredible dynamism, a disarming, magnetic and overwhelming personality.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“The newspapers at that time were quite complimentary, they viewed him as an oddball who might just have come up with something good.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“The only way to defend anything, Hubbard wrote, was to attack.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“It was a philosophy which was supposedly fully expounded in Excalibur, an unpublished book Ron was first said to have written in 1938.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“He was a mixture of Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin and Baron Munchausen. In short, he was a con man.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“Well, I have been to heaven… It was complete with gates, angels and plaster saints – and electronic implantation equipment.’ (L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin 11 May 1963)”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

“He liked to collect celebrities.”
― Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard