Top 150 Stefan Molyneux Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!”

— Stefan Molyneux

52. “Lies don’t make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.”

— Stefan Molyneux

53. “The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.”

— Stefan Molyneux

54. “Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

59. “Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.”

— Stefan Molyneux

60. “The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.”

— Stefan Molyneux

61. “We are constantly told by the government that we are in danger – not from the state, of course, which taxes and conscripts us, starts wars and buries us in national debts – but from our fellow citizens.”

— Stefan Molyneux

62. “If you were raised badly, then you were conditioned by your parents to serve their dysfunctional needs, rather than the truth, integrity, honesty or any of the other basic virtues in life.”

— Stefan Molyneux

63. “Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.”

— Stefan Molyneux

64. “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.”

— Stefan Molyneux

65. “Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”

— Stefan Molyneux

66. “It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity – than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.”

— Stefan Molyneux

67. “Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.”

— Stefan Molyneux

68. “If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don’t think it’s the children who need to be adjusted.”

— Stefan Molyneux

69. “The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.”

— Stefan Molyneux

70. “If you have a goal to pass a class in university, you have, at least hopefully, objective and well-defined steps by which you can achieve that goal – write an essay, go to class, pass an exam. If you don’t have a final goal, you cannot organize your activities.”

— Stefan Molyneux

71. “Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace.”

— Stefan Molyneux

72. “Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.”

— Stefan Molyneux

73. “It is very hard to understand the logic and intelligence of the argument that, in order to protect us from a group that might overpower us, we should support a group that already has overpowered us. It.”

— Stefan Molyneux

74. “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.”

— Stefan Molyneux

75. “Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.”

— Stefan Molyneux

76. “Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.”

— Stefan Molyneux

77. “Spiritual means religion without any rules. It’s all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.”

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78. “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.”

— Stefan Molyneux

79. “The only part of you that hurts when you’re given the truth is the part that lives on lies.”

— Stefan Molyneux

80. “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.”

— Stefan Molyneux

81. “The statist looks at a population and sees an irrational and selfish horde that needs to be endlessly herded around at gunpoint – and yet looks at those who run the government as selfless, benevolent and saintly. Yet these same statists always look at this irrational and dangerous population and say: “You must have the right to choose your political leaders!” It is truly an unsustainable and irrational set of positions.”

— Stefan Molyneux

82. “If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell – if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

84. “Trust is everything. If I didn’t have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

86. “Civilization is the general agreement to refrain from resorting to violence if negotiations fail.”

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87. “Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly – if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.”

— Stefan Molyneux

88. “To create a State and give it the power of life and death does not solve the problem of human evil. It merely transforms the shallow desire for easy property to the bottomless lust for political power.”

— Stefan Molyneux

89. “The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”

— Stefan Molyneux

90. “The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.”

— Stefan Molyneux

91. “M ost of us are raised as slaves. Our opinions are rarely sought, rules are rarely explained – and moral rules never are – we are shipped off to schools where we are treated disrespectfully; our subservience is bought with rewards, and our independence is punished with detentions. Scepticism and curiosity are scorned and belittled, while empty abilities like throwing balls, learning dates, sitting still and “being pretty” are praised and elevated.”

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92. “Since theft is the forcible removal of somebody else’s property without consent, then taxation is always, universally and forever a moral evil. Taxation.”

— Stefan Molyneux

93. “It is the height of human happiness to have somebody to love. Our agony is that we have all the light and the paint but no canvas to put the art of our hearts on.”

— Stefan Molyneux

94. “Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to my friends when we have conflicts and work through them successfully because conflicts will always arise. They are an opportunity for intimacy, self-knowledge, and a greater connection.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

96. “The essence of wisdom is learning the value of “staying in the conversation,” even when it makes you uncomfortable. Especially when it makes you uncomfortable.”

— Stefan Molyneux

97. “There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.”

— Stefan Molyneux

98. “Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.”

— Stefan Molyneux

99. “You are born into this world without choice, into a familial, social, educational, political and geographical environment that is merely accidental. And for the rest of your life, everyone will try to convince you that you are responsible for this accident.”

— Stefan Molyneux

100. “History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.”

— Stefan Molyneux