Top 150 Stefan Molyneux Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The law is an opinion with a gun.”

— Stefan Molyneux

2. “Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.”

— Stefan Molyneux

3. “Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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4. “Deep connection is the antidote to madness.”

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5. “I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”

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6. “As the old saying went in the Soviet Union, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.”

— Stefan Molyneux

7. “To see the farm is to leave it.”

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8. “Pulse proximity is not intimacy.”

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9. “Anger is the immune system of the soul.”

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10. “You can’t reason people out of beliefs they weren’t reasoned into.”

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11. “It’s not just the abuse of power that’s the problem. It’s the power to abuse.”

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12. “There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

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14. “The only freedom is freedom from illusion...”

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15. “I’d like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.”

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

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17. “There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.”

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

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19. “Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.”

— Stefan Molyneux

20. “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.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

22. “The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.”

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23. “You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.”

— Stefan Molyneux

24. “No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

26. “We raise predators by treating children as prey.”

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

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28. “The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive.”

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29. “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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30. “One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.”

— Stefan Molyneux

31. “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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32. “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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33. “We can only avoid the traps we can see.”

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34. “Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.”

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35. “Statism ends with an eye roll.”

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36. “Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.”

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37. “Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.”

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38. “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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39. “The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.”

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40. “In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.”

— Stefan Molyneux

41. “The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

43. “We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we’re always sick.”

— Stefan Molyneux

44. “To limit money is to limit political power.”

— Stefan Molyneux

45. “The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don’t lobby the government.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

47. “There’s great peace in surrendering to principles.”

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48. “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.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

50. “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.”

— Stefan Molyneux