Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

— Stefan Molyneux

A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

— Stefan Molyneux

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.

— Stefan Molyneux

Applying parents values back to them a lot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter with his own counterfeit bills. "No, you're supposed to think this is real money. I know it's not. I'm only pretending this is real money to get away with something. Furthermore, I don't actually want to receive it because I know it's fake money.

— Stefan Molyneux

Asshole Proximity Disorder

— 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

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

— Stefan Molyneux

Be big enough to offer the truth to people and if it shorts circuits them I think that's tragic. I think that's sad but, I will not strike any unholy bargains to self erase. I won't do it. Furthermore, I don't care how many people fucked up their lives. Furthermore, I don't care how many bad choices people have made. Furthermore, I don't care how much pettiness they've consumed and spat out. Furthermore, I don't care how much viciousness, rage, abuse, spanking they've dealt out. Furthermore, I am going to tell the truth as I see it, and I'm going to be who I fucking am and if that causes the world to shift in its orbit and half the evil people get thrown off the planet and up into space well, you shouldn't of been standing in evil to begin with because, there is gravity in goodness. So, sorry; I have to be who I am. Everyone ells is taken. There is no other place I can go than in my own head. I can't jump from skull to skull until I find one that suits bad people around me better. I don't have that choice. So, be your fucking self. Speak your truth and if there are people around you who tempt you with nonexistence, blast through that and give them the full glory of who you are. Do not withhold yourself from the world. Do not piss on the incandescent gift of your existence. Don't drown yourself in the petty fog and dustiness of other peoples ancient superstitions, beliefs, aggressions, culture, and crap. No, be a flare. We're all born self expressive. We are all born perfectly comfortable being incredibly inconvenient to our parents. Furthermore, we shit, piss, wake up at night, throw up on their shoulders, scream, and cry. Furthermore, we are in our essence, in our humanity, perfectly comfortable inconveniencing others. That's how we are born. That's how we grow. That's how we develop. Well, I choose to retain the ability to inconvenience the irrational. You know I had a cancer in me last year, and I'm very glad that the surgeons knife and the related medicines that I took proved extremely inconvenient to my cancer and I bet you my cancer was like "Aw shit. I hate this stuff man." Good. I'm only alive because medicine and surgery was highly inconvenient to the cancer within me. That's the only reason I'm alive. So, be who you are. If that's inconvenient to other people that's their goddamn business, not yours. Do not kill yourself because other people are dead. Do not follow people into the grave. Do not atomize yourself because, others have shredded themselves into dust for the sake of their fears and their desire to conform with the history of the dead.

— Stefan Molyneux

Because the state uses violence to achieve its ends, and there is no rational end to the use of violence, states grow until they destroy civilized interactions through the corruption of money, contracts, honesty, family and self-reliance. No state in history has ever been contained. It’s only taken a little more than a century for the US – founded on the idea of limited government, to break the bonds of the constitution, institute the income tax, take control of the money supply and the educational system and begin its catastrophic expansion.

— Stefan Molyneux

Being loved means; are disagreements welcome in my relationships? If you can't disagree with someone then you live in a tyranny and if you live in a tyranny then you are only loved to the degree that you erase yourself and conform to the irrational expectations of bullies. That isn't love, obviously. Now if somebody in you life demands that you not disagree with them and gets angry, "offended", or outraged should you disagree with them then, that person is not a good person. It's pretty narcissistic. It's somebody who does not have the maturity, wisdom, and ego strength to handle, and in fact welcome disagreements. When people disagree with me as a whole I think it's a great opportunity for learning. People don't want to expose topics that might cause disagreement because, if the disagreement is punished then the illusion of being loved by good people is shattered.

— Stefan Molyneux