Top 100 Stefan Molyneux Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history.
It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
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#4. The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.
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#5. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. Which is another way of saying that people will pay good money to avoid the demands of virtue
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#12. Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
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#13. We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
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#14. Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
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#15. No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power
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#16. The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".
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#17. Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?
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#18. 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.
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#19. It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.
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#20. What we do not confront, we inhabit.
What we do not reject, we accept.
What we do not fight, we become.
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#22. The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
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#23. Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.
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#24. Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.
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#25. Spiritual: religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.
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#26. Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
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#30. So I'm explaining intrinsic value to my 4 year old daughter - who loves toy cats - and ask her, if she was really thirsty in the desert, whether she would like a bottle of water, or a toy cat, and she tells me that she would like a bottle of water in the shape of a toy cat.
Unarguable.
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#31. Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.
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#32. 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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#33. The word "anarchy" does not mean "no rules." It does not mean "kill others for fun." It does not mean "no organization." It simply means: "without a political leader.
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#34. 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.
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#35. The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.
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#39. Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
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#40. Trying to solve complex social problems using the state, is like trying to create a beautiful painting with a machine gun: all you get is holes in the canvas, recoil aches, and a smell of cordite in the air.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.
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#44. To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.
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#46. If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
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#47. (To the haters) You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.
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#48. I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.
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#49. 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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#50. We are haunted houses of history.
Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. The entire point of a new theory is that it is unprecedented; the first man to invent a jet aircraft could scarcely submit examples of jet aircraft flying in the past.
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#54. You are born into this world without choice, into a familial, social, educational, political and geographical environment that is merely accidental. And for the rest of your life, everyone will try to convince you that you are responsible for this accident.
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#55. Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.
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#57. The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
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#58. The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).
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#59. 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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#60. There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
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#61. 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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#63. The true self is that which is in touch with reality.
The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.
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#65. Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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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#68. Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days.
You have to sail with the winds are they are now.
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#69. In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.
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#70. We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.
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#72. Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
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#73. When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.
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#74. Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace.
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#76. 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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#78. Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.
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#79. Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
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#80. What I'm talking about, what I strongly suggest to people, is that they should get closer to the people they're with.
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#81. You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
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#90. 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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#92. 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.
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#93. Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
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#94. 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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#96. 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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#97. Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived.
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#98. 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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#100. There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.
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