Quotes from Stefan Molyneux

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

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.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.

Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

I never really grew up until I had kids.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

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.

Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

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

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.