Stefan Molyneux Quotes

The law is an opinion with a gun.

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

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

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.

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

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

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

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.

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

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

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

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.

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

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

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

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.

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

To see the farm is to leave it.

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.

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

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

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.

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

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

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

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

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

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

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

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

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

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.

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

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

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

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

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

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

There's great peace in surrendering to principles