Stefan Molyneux
So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.Collection: Opportunity
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.Collection: Heart
Statism ends with an eye roll.Collection: Eye
If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.Collection: Crazy
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.Collection: Methodology
There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.Collection: Hate
We can only avoid the traps we can see.Collection: Traps
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.Collection: Suffering
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.Collection: Insecurity
Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.Collection: Spiritual
There's great peace in surrendering to principlesCollection: Principles
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.Collection: Believe
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.Collection: America
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.Collection: Evil
The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.Collection: Evil
Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.Collection: Blow
The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!Collection: Children
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.Collection: Men
Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.Collection: Love Is
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 you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.Collection: Rap
We raise predators by treating children as prey.Collection: Children
The only freedom is freedom from illusion.Collection: Illusion
Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.Collection: Suicide
Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned wars, we're not creating a permanent underclass, we're not trapping them in shitty schools where they graduate unable to read, WE DO CARE ABOUT THE POOR, and that's why we want the State out of their way!!Collection: War
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.Collection: Evil
The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.Collection: War
When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.Collection: Government
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Gun
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.Collection: Gun
If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.Collection: Despair
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.Collection: Empathy
The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.Collection: High Standards
I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.Collection: Moving
In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.Collection: Ambition
Anger is the immune system of the soul.Collection: Soul
The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.Collection: Loyalty
Deep connection is the antidote to madness.Collection: Connections
(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.Collection: Bullying
All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.Collection: Heart
If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.Collection: War