Stefan Molyneux

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

— Stefan Molyneux

“Civilization is the general agreement to refrain from resorting to violence if negotiations fail.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

“Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

“The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are…

— Stefan Molyneux

And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill…

— Stefan Molyneux

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company…

— Stefan Molyneux

“The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the…

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

“A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based…

— Stefan Molyneux

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the…

— Stefan Molyneux

“Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the…

— Stefan Molyneux

“Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

“The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

“A big rock can handle a hammer blow, it just gets chipped a little, what it can't handle is erosion”

— Stefan Molyneux

“Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man…

— Stefan Molyneux

“The existence of evil can never justify the existence of the State. If there is no evil, the State is unnecessary. If…

— Stefan Molyneux

Even if we did achieve what we wanted with a very small state, we'd just be resetting the clock back to 1776,…

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

“The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance…

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

“Ideology is the opposite of philosophy. Philosophy is the curiosity which guides its inquiry according to universal principles. Ideology is a prior…

— Stefan Molyneux

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion…

— Stefan Molyneux

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get…

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux