Quotes by Stefan Molyneux

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

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.

- Government -Free Shit for Idiots

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.

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.

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 didnt listen.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.

If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you’re very pro-gun; you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous…) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small political elite and their minions.

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 doesnt fall down.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

We cant leave the past in the past because, the past is who we are. Its like saying I wish I could forget English. So, there is no leaving the past in the past. It doesnt mean the past has to define and dominate everything in the future. The fact that I had a temper in my teens doesnt mean I have to be an angry person for the rest of my life. It just means that I had allot to be angry about but, didnt have the language and the understanding to know what it was and how big it was. I thought my anger was disproportionate to the environment which is what is called having a bad temper but, it just means that I underestimated the environment and my anger was telling me how wide and deep child abuse is in society but, I didnt understand that consciously so I thought my anger was disproportionate to the environment but, it wasnt. There is almost no amount of anger thats proportionate to the degree of child abuse in the world. The fantasy that you can not be somebody that lived through what you lived through is damaging to yourself and to your capacity to relate to others. People who care about you, people who are going to grow to love you need to know who you are and that you were shaped by what youve experienced for better and for worse. There is a great deal of challenge in talking about these issues. Lots of people in this world have been hurt as children. Most people have been hurt in this world as children and when you talk honestly and openly its very difficult for people. This is why it continues and continues.If you can get to the truth of what happened if you can understand why people made the decisions theyve made even if you dont agree with the reason for those decisions knowing the reasons for those decisions is enormously important in my opinion. The more we know the truth of history the more confidently we can face the future without self blame.

If you cant share whats important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. Its all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that youre not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. Youre the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational peoples souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.