Stefan Molyneux Quotes

We can only avoid the traps we can see.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

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

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

To limit money is to limit political power.

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.

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

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

Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

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

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.

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you, ' but, 'Tell me more.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

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

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

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

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life.

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

I never really grew up until I had kids.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.

The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace.