01c. 1966 ADThere is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
02c. 1966 ADSCREW 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.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
05c. 1966 ADAwkward 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1966 ADIf you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
07c. 1966 ADThere is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
08c. 1966 ADWhen people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
09c. 1966 ADWe are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
11c. 1966 ADThe world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
12c. 1966 ADKnowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
13c. 1966 ADWhat we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
15c. 1966 ADIrrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
16c. 1966 ADThere's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
17c. 1966 ADTruth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
18c. 1966 ADBaseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
19c. 1966 ADSanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
20c. 1966 ADTo be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
21c. 1966 ADWe may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
22c. 1966 ADThe three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.Stefan Molyneux / quote ↗
23c. 1966 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
