Top 100 Stefan Molyneux Quotes
#3. Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace.
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#4. Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
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#6. We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.
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#13. The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.
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#15. There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Historical definition of a country's borders ... ... here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. If human beings are in general too irrational and selfish to work out the challenges of social organization in a productive and positive manner, then they are far too irrational and selfish to be given the monopolistic violence of state power, or vote for their leaders.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#29. As a philosophy, utilitarianism is the argument you can objectively determine what is the greatest good for the greatest number of people and we need the state to achieve that end.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
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#32. Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
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#33. The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
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#35. The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".
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#36. No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power
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#37. We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
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#38. Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
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#40. Which is another way of saying that people will pay good money to avoid the demands of virtue
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#41. 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.
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#42. The essence of wisdom is learning the value of "staying in the conversation," even when it makes you uncomfortable. Especially when it makes you uncomfortable.
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#44. The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.
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#45. We are haunted houses of history.
Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.
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#46. A theoretical social state in which there is no governing person or body of persons, but each individual has absolute liberty (without implication of disorder).
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#47. I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.
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#48. To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.
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#52. Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business ... because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
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#53. Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn't matter what field it's in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.
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#54. The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.
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#55. 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.
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#56. Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.
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#57. The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
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#58. I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.
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#59. 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
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#60. Any time a system that justifies power can be conceived of running without that power, all those who profit from the manipulation of that power cry out that without them, all is lost.
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#61. People's expectations of us are almost always who we become.
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#62. The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive
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#63. 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.
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#64. The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
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#65. The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!
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#68. Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down.
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#69. If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.
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#70. Ideology is the opposite of philosophy. Philosophy is the curiosity which guides its inquiry according to universal principles. Ideology is a prior prejudice that seeks out an echo-chamber of reaffirming information.
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#71. Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.
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#72. A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.
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#73. 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.
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#74. All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.
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#76. The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.
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#78. Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
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#79. If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
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#80. The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.
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#81. The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.
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#82. Since theft is the forcible removal of somebody else's property without consent, then taxation is always, universally and forever a moral evil. Taxation
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#83. All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.
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#84. It is very hard to understand the logic and intelligence of the argument that, in order to protect us from a group that might overpower us, we should support a group that already has overpowered us. It
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#85. Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
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#88. The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.
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#89. 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.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.
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#92. Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.
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#93. The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
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#95. A big rock can handle a hammer blow, it just gets chipped a little, what it can't handle is erosion
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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#98. The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.
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#99. Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.
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