Stefan Molyneux Quotes - Page 4

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

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.

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised.

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

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.

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.

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.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

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.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Can social progress be made without government?
It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be achieved without rape? Can profitability be achieved without theft? Can economic growth be achieved without the mass indebted enslavement and counterfeiting of the federal reserve?'.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

There’s nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you’re alone you can be yourself, but when you’re in empty relationships you can’t even be yourself.
You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.
Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it’s worse than no friends at all.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.