Stefan Molyneux Quotes

It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.

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

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

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

Sorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken... So be your self! Speak your truth - if there are people around you who tempt you with non-existence blast through that and give them the full glory of who you are. Do not withhold yourself from the world. Do not piss on the incandescent gift of your existence. Do not drown yourself in the petty fog and dustiness of other people's ancient superstitions, unbeliefs, aggressions, culture and crap! No! Be a flare! We were born that way. Born perfectly happy being inconvenient to our parents. We shit, piss, cry, wake up at night, throw up on their shoulders, scream... We are, in essence, in our humanity, perfectly comfortable with inconveniencing others. That's how we're born, how we grow and develop. I choose to inconvenience the irrational.

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

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

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

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

The law is an opinion with a gun.

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

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

Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.

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

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised.

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

Applying parents values back to them allot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter with his own counterfeit bills. "No, your supposed to think this is real money. I know it's not. I'm only pretending this is real money to get away with something. I don't actually want to receive it because I know it's fake money.

Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They're only allowed as much reality as serves the masters. But they're not allowed any reality which disturbs their masters...

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

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

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