Stefan Molyneux Quotes

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

The law is an opinion with a gun.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.

If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you’re very Pro-Gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous…) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.

There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?

And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.