Stefan Molyneux
What I'm talking about, what I strongly suggest to people, is that they should get closer to the people they're with.
I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult.
Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.
If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.
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.
Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.
Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.
Even if we did achieve what we wanted with a very small state, we'd just be resetting the clock back to 1776, and it would roll forward exactly the same way again.
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.Collection: Believe
The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.Collection: Leftovers
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.Collection: Children
The law is an opinion with a gun.Collection: Gun
Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to rob a bank, and the hand-puppet held the little gun and told people to hand over all the money, and then the hand-puppet grabbed the money and ran out, and then I got caught and I handed the hand-puppet over the police and then the police tried the hand-puppet, put the hand-puppet in jail, and I get to keep all the money.Collection: Gun
The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.Collection: Hurt
Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.Collection: Democracy
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.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Sports
The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.Collection: Growth
No matter who you vote for, the government stays in powerCollection: Government
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensiveCollection: Purpose
Pulse proximity is not intimacy.Collection: Pulse
We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!Collection: Real
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.Collection: Men
We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.Collection: Children
Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.Collection: Who You Are
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.Collection: Government
If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.Collection: Honesty
Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.Collection: Moving
Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.Collection: Gun
Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.Collection: People
You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.Collection: People
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.Collection: Integrity
It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.Collection: Abuse
The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?Collection: Believe
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.Collection: Accepted
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.Collection: Way
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.Collection: Tyranny
The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.Collection: Government
We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.Collection: Years
To limit money is to limit political power.Collection: Political
To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.Collection: Pyramids
You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Believe
The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).Collection: War
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.Collection: War
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.Collection: Medicine
To see the farm is to leave it.Collection: Farms
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.Collection: People
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.Collection: Children
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.Collection: Simple