Stefan Molyneux Quotes

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

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

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.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

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

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

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.

It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus

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.

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.

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

Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

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.

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

History is the same story with different costumes.

Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.

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

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.

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

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

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity