Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Stefan Molyneux - Page 2

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

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

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.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

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.

There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

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

To limit money is to limit political power.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

There's great peace in surrendering to principles

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

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.

I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

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

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

We can only avoid the traps we can see.

The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?