Stefan Molyneux Quotes

There's great peace in surrendering to principles

If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

To see the farm is to leave it.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned wars, we're not creating a permanent underclass, we're not trapping them in shitty schools where they graduate unable to read, WE DO CARE ABOUT THE POOR, and that's why we want the State out of their way!!

If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.

Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.

There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

We can only avoid the traps we can see.

I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

To limit money is to limit political power.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to rob a bank, and the hand-puppet held the little gun and told people to hand over all the money, and then the hand-puppet grabbed the money and ran out, and then I got caught and I handed the hand-puppet over the police and then the police tried the hand-puppet, put the hand-puppet in jail, and I get to keep all the money.

It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.

Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.