Top 160 Oliver Markus Malloy Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Dumb people like Trump think they’re super smart, because they are so spectacularly stupid, they don’t even know how much stuff they don’t know. They are so dumb, they don’t even know that other people know a lot more about a topic than they do.”

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2. “Religion is divisive. People kill because of it. I think one day religion will be seen as just as intolerant and wrong as racism.”

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3. “Food for thought: Every dead body on Mount Everest was once a highly motivated person. Stay lazy my friends. It may save your life one day.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

4. “Dumb people don’t know they’re dumb.”

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5. “People in a cult don’t know they’re in a cult. But everyone else can tell.”

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6. “Conspiracy theories like Qanon make dumb people feel smart, because they think they’re privy to secret information.”

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7. “First you make people believe they have a problem, and then you sell them the solution. That’s how advertising works. Every snake oil salesman knows that.”

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8. “Being a self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don’t have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.”

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9. “Guns don’t kill people. Gun owners kill people.”

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10. “I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.”

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11. “Trump’s MAGA minions live in a Fox News bubble.”

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12. “Most Christian holidays were Pagan holidays first. Christmas trees and Easter eggs have absolutely nothing to do with Jesus. They are Pagan symbols. Christianity is thinly disguised Paganism.”

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13. “The purpose of a democratic government is to protect the poor from the rich. The purpose of religion is to protect the rich from the poor.”

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14. “Being religious doesn’t mean you’re righteous. It just means you’re gullible.”

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15. “I’m an Epicurean hedonist. The meaning of life is to enjoy my life.”

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16. “Reading books doesn’t make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.”

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17. “The problem with Trump voters is, they’re so dumb, they don’t even know how much stuff they don’t know. They just assume no one else knows more about evolution or global warming than they do.”

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18. “Rainbows are gay space lasers. That’s why they’re not straight.”

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19. “Tribalism is the root of all wars.”

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20. “A God that never interferes is indistinguishable from a God that doesn’t exist.”

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21. “You must be a Fox News viewer. Nobody else is dumb enough to believe Trump’s lies.”

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22. “The sad thing is, Trump’s minions have no idea how dumb they sound when they repeat his lies as if they were true.”

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23. “You’re confusing weather with climate. When it’s cold in the winter, that’s weather. When it’s cold in Alaska, that’s climate.”

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24. “Right-wing Americans don’t recognize fascism, even when it’s right in front of their face, because they have been brainwashed by fascists their entire lives.”

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25. “The whole purpose of government is to protect the weak from the rich, to make sure the rich don’t eat the poor, the way they used to in the Stone Age, or medieval Europe, when there was no government and no laws stopping the strong from robbing the weak.”

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26. “You want to make America great again? Make racism wrong again!”

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27. “In America, people with pre-existing mental health issues have access to firearms but not healthcare. Thanks, Republicans!”

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28. “Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

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29. “If it’s true that men and women can be ‘just friends’ then how come all cheaters first start out as ’just friends?”

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30. “Hitler’s Nazi mob didn’t think of themselves as the bad guys. They thought of themselves as the victims of evil foreigners. Just like Trump’s MAGA mob.”

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31. “Have you noticed all the misogynistic teenage Trump trolls online? What does it say about the Trump era that young incels feel nothing but hatred for women and can’t find it in their heart to say one kind thing about a female? What happened to this country?”

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32. “The attacks on the US capitol on January 6th, 2021 will have ripple effects for years to come. We’re no longer in the September 11th era. We’re now in the January 6th era.”

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33. “If Hitler was alive today he’d be a Republican.”

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34. “War is like a vacuum cleaner that sucks tax dollars out of your pocket and funnels the money directly into the pockets of the robber barons who own the weapons factories.”

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35. “2020 was bad. 2021 is worse.”

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36. “Have you ever played Monopoly? It’s a board game designed to teach kids capitalism. And what happens in the end? The winner has all the money, and everyone else has nothing. Woohoo! So much fun! That’s literally how America works. That’s why there are a few super rich people who own almost everything, and tens of millions of dirt poor people who have nothing.”

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37. “A naked breast is no more a threat to the well-being of a child than a naked hand or foot. So from a European point of view, American media censorship seems utterly ridiculous.”

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38. “Most people don’t think for themselves. They just regurgitate someone else’s opinion and pass it off as their own.”

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39. “The most painful thing in life is to watch the people you love wither away.”

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40. “What makes a good book? An author who knows how to leave out all the unnecessary bulk and delivers a lean story where not a single word is fluff.”

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41. “Envy is the desire to have what someone else has. Jealousy is the fear of losing what you have. The more insecure you are about yourself or your relationship, the more jealous you are, because you are afraid to lose your significant other to someone else.”

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42. “Some people looove to feel offended because it makes them feel important. When your only tool is a hammer, suddenly every problem starts to look like a nail. And when the only time you feel relevant is when you claim to be offended, suddenly everything looks offensive.”

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43. “There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non-existence.”

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44. “Christians believe that God loves you sooo much... he created hell, just in case you don’t love him back.”

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45. “The Dunning Kruger Effect: Dumb people like Trump don’t know how dumb they are. They don’t even know how much stuff they don’t know. They don’t know that other people know the stuff they don’t know that they don’t know. Dumb people like Trump believe they know everything there is to know.”

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46. “Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible. There have to be below average writers. But nobody sees themselves that way. That means there are a whole lot of bad writers out there, who don’t even know it.”

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47. “We live in this bubble of ignorance. Most people know nothing about history, or the historical context of the traditions they still follow today. People do things without knowing why they’re doing them.”

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48. “Only the present is real. The past and the future exist only in our imagination.”

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49. “If a girl wants to sell her body, so be it. None of my business. Don’t athletes sell their bodies, too? People can do behind closed doors whatever they want, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.”

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50. “No matter what you do, no matter what you say, someone out there will proclaim how outraged they are, because they think it’s their job to be offended by every God damn thing. It makes people feel important. It makes them feel powerful. It makes them feel like their opinion is relevant.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy