Stefan Molyneux > Quotes

“There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.”
― Stefan Molyneux

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

“The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“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.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Deep connection is the antidote to madness.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“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.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming change. As soon as scepticism 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.”
― Stefan Molyneux

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

“The law is an opinion with a gun.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“There's no weakness as great as false strength.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“SCREW CHILDREN!
That's the mantra of the world.
Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Asshole Proximity Disorder”
― Stefan Molyneux

“The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.”
― 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 only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“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.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“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.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Dear Hunger Games :

Screw you for helping cowards pretend you have to be great with a bow to fight evil.

You don't need to be drafted into a monkey-infested jungle to fight evil.

You don't need your father's light sabre, or to be bitten by a radioactive spider.

You don't need to be stalked by a creepy ancient vampire who is basically a pedophile if you're younger than a redwood.

Screw you mainstream media for making it look like moral courage requires hair gel, thousands of sit ups and millions of dollars of fake ass CGI.

Moral courage is the gritty, scary and mostly anonymous process of challenging friends, co-workers and family on issues like spanking, taxation, debt, circumcision and war.

Moral courage is standing up to bullies when the audience is not cheering, but jeering. It is helping broken people out of abusive relationships, and promoting the inner peace of self knowledge in a shallow and empty pseudo-culture.

Moral courage does not ask for - or receive - permission or the praise of the masses. If the masses praise you, it is because you are helping distract them from their own moral cowardice and conformity. Those who provoke discomfort create change - no one else.

So forget your politics and vampires and magic wands and photon torpedoes. Forget passively waiting for the world to provoke and corner you into being virtuous. It never will.

Stop watching fictional courage and go live some; it is harder and better than anything you will ever see on a screen.

Let's make the world change the classification of courage from 'fantasy' to 'documentary.'

You know there are people in your life who are doing wrong. Go talk to them, and encourage them to pursue philosophy, self-knowledge and virtue.

Be your own hero; you are the One that your world has been waiting for.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and rise like a phoenix, free of all history, is generally a tipping point into insanity, akin to believing that we can escape the endless constraints of gravity, and fly off a tall building. “I’m freeeee… SPLAT!”.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“I try not to be around people who want me to be somebody else. Fundamentally you can't be somebody else. You can only be less of who you are.”
― Stefan Molyneux

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