Quotes by Stefan Molyneux - Page 2

What I'm talking about, what I strongly suggest to people, is that they should get closer to the people they're with.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Closer
Strongly
Suggest
Copy Quote
The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Firsts
Leftovers
Stolen
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Men
Cells
Jail
Copy Quote
When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Government
Giving
Grows
Copy Quote
(To the haters)You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, your're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Bullying
Graves
Light
Copy Quote
Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Three
Trying
Wind
Copy Quote
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Accepted
Accumulation
Rejected
Copy Quote
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 / Author
War
Childhood
Dresses
Copy Quote
The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Children
Moving
Unstoppable
Copy Quote
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
America
Blind
Dirt
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Opportunity
Government
People
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Gun
Hands
Political
Copy Quote
If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Government
America
Grows
Looks
Smallest
Experiment
Largest
Copy Quote
The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Government
War
Past
Copy Quote
Even if we did achieve what we wanted with a very small state, we'd just be resetting the clock back to 1776, and it would roll forward exactly the same way again.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Clock
Exactly The Same
Just Be
Copy Quote
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.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Government
Enslavement
People
Copy Quote
Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Deep Down
Doctors
Good Believe Way
Copy Quote
Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Men
Focus
Gun
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Adoption
Believe
Peaceful
Copy Quote
If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Sports
Turkeys
Weather
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Abuse
Restitution
Victim
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Government
Needs
Smoking
Copy Quote
If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
War
Drug
People
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Democracy
Levels
Suicide
Copy Quote
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 / Author
War
Children
Hands
Copy Quote
Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Effects
Produce
Actions
Bodies
Bow
Inevitably
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Gun
Media
People
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Empathy
Political
Prejudice
Copy Quote
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 / Author
Blame
High Standards
Use
Copy Quote
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.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Believe
Past
Thinking
Copy Quote
If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Crazy
Destiny
People
Copy Quote
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.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Loyalty
Country
Past
Police
Copy Quote
If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Government
Evil People
Gun
Copy Quote
Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned wars, we're not creating a permanent underclass, we're not trapping them in shitty schools where they graduate unable to read, WE DO CARE ABOUT THE POOR, and that's why we want the State out of their way!!
Stefan Molyneux / Author
War
Creating
School
Copy Quote
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Failure
Fall
Ideas
Copy Quote
If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Despair
Feels
Gaps
Copy Quote
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?
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Believe
Bows
Doe
Copy Quote
We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!
Stefan Molyneux / Author
War
Cells
Real
Copy Quote
We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Ocean
Children
Lying
Copy Quote
Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to rob a bank, and the hand-puppet held the little gun and told people to hand over all the money, and then the hand-puppet grabbed the money and ran out, and then I got caught and I handed the hand-puppet over the police and then the police tried the hand-puppet, put the hand-puppet in jail, and I get to keep all the money.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Gun
Hands
Jail
Copy Quote
If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you’re very Pro-Gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous…) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Government
Believe
Gun
Copy Quote
If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
Desire
Honesty
Thinking
Copy Quote
Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.
Stefan Molyneux / Author
People
Rap
Soul
Copy Quote

Related Author Authors

Zig Ziglar
Author
Saturday, Nov 06, 1926
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012
Wayne Dyer
Author
Friday, May 10, 1940
Saturday, Aug 29, 2015
Stephen Covey
Author
Monday, Oct 24, 1932
Monday, Jul 16, 2012
Peter Drucker
Author
Friday, Nov 19, 1909
Friday, Nov 11, 2005
Napoleon Hill
Author
Friday, Oct 26, 1883
Sunday, Nov 08, 1970
Zz Packer
Author
Friday, Jan 12, 1973
Zsuzsanna Budapest
Author
Tuesday, Jan 30, 1940
Zona Gale
Author
Wednesday, Aug 26, 1874
Tuesday, Dec 27, 1938
Zoey Dean
Author
Zoe Weil
Author
Thursday, Jul 13, 1961
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Author
Wednesday, May 11, 1927
Wednesday, Oct 08, 2014
Zick Rubin
Author
Zhang Xianliang
Author

Saturday, Sep 27, 2014
Zelda Popkin
Author
Tuesday, Jul 05, 1898
Wednesday, May 25, 1983
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Author
Monday, Oct 18, 1880
Sunday, Aug 04, 1940

View All Author Quotes

Top Authors

Abraham Lincoln
16Th U.S. President
Sunday, Feb 12, 1809
Saturday, Apr 15, 1865
Steven Wright
Comedian
Tuesday, Dec 06, 1955
Niccolo Machiavelli
Historian
Monday, May 03, 1469
Tuesday, Jun 21, 1527
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Saturday, Jul 12, 1817
Tuesday, May 06, 1862
George Orwell
Novelist
Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
Saturday, Jan 21, 1950
Peter Drucker
Author
Friday, Nov 19, 1909
Friday, Nov 11, 2005
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor
Saturday, Apr 26, 0121
Friday, Mar 17, 0180
Zig Ziglar
Author
Saturday, Nov 06, 1926
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012
Julius Caesar
Roman Dictator
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Chanakya
Teacher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Tyler, The Creator
Rapper
Wednesday, Mar 06, 1991
Saint Augustine
Saint
Saturday, Nov 13, 0354
Wednesday, Aug 28, 0430
Walt Whitman
Poet
Monday, May 31, 1819
Saturday, Mar 26, 1892
Dr. Seuss
Writer
Wednesday, Mar 02, 1904
Tuesday, Sep 24, 1991
Groucho Marx
Comedian
Thursday, Oct 02, 1890
Friday, Aug 19, 1977

View All Authors

Stefan Molyneux Quotes - Page 2

App & Tools

Related Author Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Author Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page