Top 150 Stefan Molyneux Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn’t matter what field it’s in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.”

— Stefan Molyneux

103. “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

104. “I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn’t listen.”

— Stefan Molyneux

105. “If society gave everything that a poor person could possibly require in order to live comfortably, that would scarcely reduce the numbers of poor people, but would rather increase them considerably.”

— Stefan Molyneux

106. “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

107. “If I say that I need the government to protect my property, but that the government is by definition a group of people who can violate my property rights at will, then I am caught in an insurmountable contradiction. I am saying that my property rights must be defended – and then I create an agency to defend them that can violate them at any time. This.”

— Stefan Molyneux

108. “Rights” are something made up by governments to make you feel like you’re buying something with your taxes.”

— Stefan Molyneux

109. “If you cannot escape your prison, then you might as well imagine that you’re free.”

— Stefan Molyneux

110. “We can never be closer to others than we are to ourselves, and we can never be closer to ourselves than we are to the truth – the truth leads us to personal authenticity; authenticity leads us to intimacy, which is the greatest joy in human relations.”

— Stefan Molyneux

111. “Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

— Stefan Molyneux

112. “If a democratic government must force a selfish and unwilling populace to help the poor, then government programs do not reflect the will of the people, and democracy is a lie, and we must get rid of it – or at least stop pretending to vote.”

— Stefan Molyneux

113. “The reason that philosophy is so essential is that if we don’t use it, it is used against us in the service of evil to enable the murder and enslavement – literally – of billions.”

— Stefan Molyneux

114. “Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.”

— Stefan Molyneux

115. “The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.”

— Stefan Molyneux

116. “No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.”

— Stefan Molyneux

117. “I never really grew up until I had kids.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

119. “Invading a statist society is like grabbing the cages of a large number of trapped chickens – you get all of the eggs in perpetuity. Invading a stateless society is like taking a sprint at a flock of seagulls – all they do is scatter, and you get nothing, except perhaps some crap on your forehead.”

— Stefan Molyneux

120. “For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.”

— Stefan Molyneux

121. “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

122. “When we speak of “gods,” we are really talking about “the opinions of priests.” When we speak of “the government,” we really mean “the violence of a tiny minority.”

— Stefan Molyneux

123. “The word “rights”, is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.”

— Stefan Molyneux

124. “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

125. “The entire point of a new theory is that it is unprecedented; the first man to invent a jet aircraft could scarcely submit examples of jet aircraft flying in the past.”

— Stefan Molyneux

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

— Stefan Molyneux

127. “Since human beings do in fact have equal rights of property, any social system which rejects this right is doomed to utter failure – just as any bridge planner who rejects the reality of gravity will never be able to build a bridge that stands.”

— Stefan Molyneux

128. “Society is really an ecosystem of agreed-upon premises or arguments, usually based on tradition. Those who accept the “truth” of these arguments find their practical course through the existing social infrastructure enormously eased; they do not ask people to really think, they do not discomfort others with uncomfortable truths, and thus what passes for discourse in the world resembles more two mirrors facing each other – a narrow infinity of empty reflection, if you will pardon the metaphor.”

— Stefan Molyneux

129. “If you don’t examine your programming, your programming becomes your physics – as absolute and unchangeable as the laws of material reality.”

— Stefan Molyneux

130. “The world will be free of the State when we finally see that the State is inferior to all of our personal and professional relationships. When we are completely used to thinking in terms of mutual advantage, the violent exploitation of the State will finally become clear to us, and it will fall away.”

— Stefan Molyneux

131. “Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.”

— Stefan Molyneux

132. “Any time a system that justifies power can be conceived of running without that power, all those who profit from the manipulation of that power cry out that without them, all is lost.”

— Stefan Molyneux

133. “However, prejudice against anarchists – much like prejudice against atheists – is one of the last remaining acceptable bigotries in the world. We cannot judge any group negatively – except a group that relies on reason, evidence, and non-violence.”

— Stefan Molyneux

134. “Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.”

— Stefan Molyneux

135. “The star-shreds that aggregated into the most improbable and miraculous explosion of your consciousness should be appreciated with more noble sentiments than resentment and depression.”

— Stefan Molyneux

136. “Anarchists understand that the only valid and proven way to oppose human corruption is through voluntarism and competition – statists believe that the only way to oppose human corruption is to create a monopoly of violent power.”

— Stefan Molyneux

137. “The story of the progress of human morals is almost entirely populated by people who did not live to see the world that they loved in their minds.”

— Stefan Molyneux

138. “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.”

— Stefan Molyneux

139. “The three most important words in a relationship are not, ‘I love you,’ but, ‘Tell me more.”

— Stefan Molyneux

140. “Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn’t fall down.”

— Stefan Molyneux

141. “Children are rarely taught critical thinking anymore, and society has become so antirational that basic reason and evidence are the new counterculture: thought is the new punk.”

— Stefan Molyneux

142. “There is a sickly market for selling helpless people the idea that they are poor because the ambitious and wealthy people have stolen resources from them. This creates a dangerous hatred for the productive that sets society on the path to self-destruction.”

— Stefan Molyneux

143. “Service to “the country” is considered a virtue – although the net beneficiaries of that service are always those who rule citizens by force. In.”

— Stefan Molyneux

144. “You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That’s like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.”

— Stefan Molyneux

145. “If we value human life – as any reasonable and moral person must – then fearing anarchists rather than political leaders is like fearing spontaneous combustion rather than heart disease. In the category of “causing deaths,” a single government leader outranks all anarchists tens of thousands of times.”

— Stefan Molyneux

146. “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

147. “In the statist paradigm, we listen only to God and obey His commandments. In the anarchist paradigm, God also listens to us, and we negotiate as equals.”

— Stefan Molyneux

148. “We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”

— Stefan Molyneux

149. “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

150. “Without the state, we are told, we will be overrun by the insanity and evil of those around us – but the state is also somehow legitimized by the votes of the insane and evil around us.”

— Stefan Molyneux