Stefan Molyneux Quotes

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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.

~ Stefan Molyneux

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: Human Nature.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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

~ Stefan Molyneux

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

~ Stefan Molyneux

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

~ 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

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

~ Stefan Molyneux

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

~ Stefan Molyneux

No mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that they're gonna catch you on the sunny side or that you're gonna be nice this time. The tyranny is inconsistency. Somebody thats consistently mean is something that is pretty easy to sort out. The reality is that the meanest people can be wonderful sometimes. That's the whole point of meanness because otherwise it's too obvious. It's the niceness that gets you trapped in the dysfunction. That is the problem and so the fact that you have this belief that there is hope in the relationship is foundational to the dysfunction.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The woman who left abusive husbands in the 60's and 70's improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women can leave their husbands and the women or men who stay in abusive relationships are a massive advertisement to non- consequentiality of abuse.So, if you stay in a abusive relationship you are signaling to everyone who ever comes in contact with you or hears about you that abusers face no consequences to their abuse therefore by staying in an abusive relationship you are encouraging and subsidizing abuse.By getting out of abusive relationships you are saying the whole world over that abusers can't get away with it. That there are negative consequences to child, adult, or spousal abuse. You name it. It just doesn't have consequences for you, it has consequences for other people.When you break out and reject abusive and irredeemable relationships you are sending a clear signal which all abusers are listening for at all times. Can I get away with it? That's all they're thinking. It is my hope that abusers hear this and say Oh shit. The game is up.

~ Stefan Molyneux

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.

~ Stefan Molyneux

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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

~ Stefan Molyneux

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Bullying is an attack upon the runts of the litter - the weak of the species, and it is predicated on a lack of bond with the parents. If a child has a secure bond with the parents, that forms a force-field around the child in terms of bullying. If the child does not have a strong bond with the parents, then it's like being separated from the herd - those are the ones who get picked off by the human predators in childhood and adulthood. So keep your contacts as close as you can, they provide an amazing shield against bullies and users.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Sorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken... So be your self! Speak your truth - if there are people around you who tempt you with non-existence blast through that and give them the full glory of who you are. Do not withhold yourself from the world. Do not piss on the incandescent gift of your existence. Do not drown yourself in the petty fog and dustiness of other people's ancient superstitions, unbeliefs, aggressions, culture and crap! No! Be a flare! We were born that way. Born perfectly happy being inconvenient to our parents. We shit, piss, cry, wake up at night, throw up on their shoulders, scream... We are, in essence, in our humanity, perfectly comfortable with inconveniencing others. That's how we're born, how we grow and develop. I choose to inconvenience the irrational.

~ Stefan Molyneux