Stefan Molyneux quotes:

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

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

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

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

Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.

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

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.

The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

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

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

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

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

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

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

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

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

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.

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.

History is the same story with different costumes.

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.

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

July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and economic reality.The fireworks are the glowing tears of your children's incinerated futures.Cheer happy slaves - your only chains are your deluded joys. Cheer and sing, because for you, songs of death are easier than questions of life.

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.

Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

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.

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.

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.

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

Can social progress be made without government?It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be achieved without rape? Can profitability be achieved without theft? Can economic growth be achieved without the mass indebted enslavement and counterfeiting of the federal reserve?'.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

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

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

Yes I pay taxesThere 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.

The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

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 connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

- Government -Free Shit for Idiots

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family.

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

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

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

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

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

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

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

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.

Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

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.

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.

If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.

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.

So I'm explaining intrinsic value to my 4 year old daughter - who loves toy cats - and ask her, if she was really thirsty in the desert, whether she would like a bottle of water, or a toy cat, and she tells me that she would like a bottle of water in the shape of a toy cat.Unarguable.

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

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

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

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

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

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

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

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

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

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.

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

I never really grew up until I had kids.

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

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

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

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

There's great peace in surrendering to principles

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

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

The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.

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.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

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...

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

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

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

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

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

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

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

The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

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

Asshole Proximity Disorder

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

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