Stefan Molyneux

“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”

“There’s nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you’re alone you can be yourself, but when you’re in empty relationships you can’t even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it’s worse than no friends at all.”

“SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.”

“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.”

“History is the same story with different costumes.”

“Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.”

“Statism is an unnatural disaster.”

“The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.”

“Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived.”

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

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

“What I'm talking about, what I strongly suggest to people, is that they should get closer to the people they're with.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”