268 Quotes by Stefan Molyneux

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.

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.

If you have a goal to pass a class in university, you have, at least hopefully, objective and well-defined steps by which you can achieve that goal – write an essay, go to class, pass an exam. If you don’t have a final goal, you cannot organize your activities.

Human beings have a deeply seated desire to correct others. We can be noble and say that this is for the cause of moral instruction and the improvement of the minds and choices of others across the globe – and on occasion this may actually be the case. But the reality is that human beings like to correct other human beings because it is a non-violent way to control them.

If a democratic government must force a selfish and unwilling populace to help the poor, then government programs do not reflect the will of the people, and democracy is a lie, and we must get rid of it – or at least stop pretending to vote.

Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn’t matter what field it’s in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time.

The essence of wisdom is learning the value of “staying in the conversation,” even when it makes you uncomfortable. Especially when it makes you uncomfortable.

The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life.

The word “rights”, is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.