Stefan Molyneux Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

3. The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

4. There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

5. There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

6. Asshole Proximity Disorder

7. 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.

8. Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

9. Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

10. Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

11. Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

12. Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.

13. If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

14. If you have people who treat you badly in your life, they will be a human shield against people who will treat you well. If that’s not true then we should apply it to marriage and start saying to woman who are being put down or beaten, you gotta stay with him because he needs you and he has been your husband for 20 years for heaven sakes. You just have to work to love him more and so on. This is the advice they gave to woman like 200 fucking years ago and it was abusive advice. I view the parent child relationship (This just not my made up perspective.) it is the least voluntary relationship. At least the woman who got married chose to get married. We don’t choose our parents. The highest standards of behavior are required for parents and no one else. There is no one else whose standards of behavior need be higher than parents and so often parents get away with the lowest possible standards of behavior with regards to their children.

15. If 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.

16. Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

17. Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

18. It’s not the drug that causes the junkie it’s the laws that causes the junkie because of course the drug laws means that he can’t go and get help because he is afraid of being arrested. He also can’t have a normal life because the war on drugs has made drugs so expensive and has made drug contracts unenforceable which means they can only be enforced through criminal violence. It becomes so profitable to sell drugs to addicts that the drug dealers have every incentive to get people addicted by offering free samples and to concentrate their drug to the highest possible dose to provoke the greatest amount of addiction as possible.Overall it is a completely staggering and completely satanic human calamity. It is the new gulag and in some ways much more brutal than the soviet gulag. In the soviet gulags there was not a huge prison rape problem and in this situation your life could be destroyed through no fault of your own through sometimes, no involvement of your own and the people who end up in the drug culture are walled off and separated as a whole and thrown into this demonic, incredibly dangerous, underworld were the quality of the drugs can’t be verified. Were contracts can’t be enforced except through breaking peoples kneecaps and the price of drugs would often led them to a life of crime.People say well, I became a drug addict and I lost my house, family, and my job and all that. It’s not because you became a drug addict but, because there is a war on drugs which meant that you had to pay so much for the drugs that you lost your house because you couldn't go and find help or substitutes and ended up losing your job. It’s all nonsense. The government can’t keep drugs out of prisons for heaven’s sakes. The war on drugs is not designed to be won. Its designed to continue so that the government can get the profits of drug running both directly through the CIA and other drug runners that are affiliated or through bribes and having the power of terrorizing the population. To frame someone for murder is pretty hard but to palm a packet of cocaine and say that you found it in their car is pretty damn easy and the government loves having that power." -

19. Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to my friends when we have conflicts and work through them successfully because conflicts will always arise. They are an opportunity for intimacy, self-knowledge, and a greater connection.

23. The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

24. The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

25. 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.

26. The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.

27. The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

28. 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.

29. There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

30. 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.