23 July 2002
 

"Well, the technological fact which kicked all this off is that you did it. And that's a tough bullet to chew. Nobody on Earth, anywhere, ever had the power to aberrate you, except you. When you've managed to gulp that one down, your throat may feel raw but you will feel much better generally, because you'll stop going around looking for all the bad things that are happening to you.

"Now, we've all of us been 'motivator kids'; we've all of us been motivator hungry. 'Look at what's happened to me!' See? Arrows, bullet holes, arsenic. And us poor victims, somehow or other, must struggle along to our doubtlessly degraded destiny of being victimized.

"Oh, I'm—it's unfortunate that this is so popular. This is so popular that all I would have to do is write a book saying 'You are a victim,' and go right back up to the top of the bestseller list of the Times. But the only truth in it would be this one fact: You are a victim of your own delusion that you can be a victim."

— L. Ron Hubbard
State of Man Congress

 
 

From the lecture "Why People Don't Like You"

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