Stefan Molyneux Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
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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.
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Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.
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We raise predators by treating children as prey.
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The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
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Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.
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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.
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There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
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Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
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It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.
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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.
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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.
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The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
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The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.
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You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
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If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
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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.
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Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.
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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.
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To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.
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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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Statism ends with an eye roll.
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The only freedom is freedom from illusion.
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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.
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I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.
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The law is an opinion with a gun.
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Anger is the immune system of the soul.
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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.
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