“The 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“Asshole Proximity Disorder”
— Stefan Molyneux“You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.”
— Stefan Molyneux“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.”
— Stefan Molyneux“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.”
— Stefan Molyneux“What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.”
— Stefan Molyneux“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Sanity 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“Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Excuses are a promise of repetition.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Awkward 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“There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.”
— Stefan Molyneux“There'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“Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.”
— Stefan Molyneux“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Deep connection is the antidote to madness.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.”
— Stefan Molyneux“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”
— Stefan Molyneux