Stefan Molyneux Quotes

The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.

To see the farm is to leave it.

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

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

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

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

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

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.

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

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

Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

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

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

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

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down.

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life.

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.

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

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

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

What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

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

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

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

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.