“If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.” PeopleIfsImportantSportsShareWeatherBullshitTurkeysWhat's ImportantProximity Author:Stefan Molyneux
“If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.” IfsWorldLooksGovernmentAmericaGrowsExperimentsSmallest Author:Stefan Molyneux
“If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsTwoGovernmentActionEvilMoralGroupsGunConsequenceMajorityDefinitionsHungryTwo ThingsGood And EvilWant SomethingEvil PeoplePower Hungry Author:Stefan Molyneux
“If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.” PeopleIfsWarUniverseAsksDrugPrisonComplexesPrintBitcoinWar On DrugsGet Money Author:Stefan Molyneux
“Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to rob a bank, and the hand-puppet held the little gun and told people to hand over all the money, and then the hand-puppet grabbed the money and ran out, and then I got caught and I handed the hand-puppet over the police and then the police tried the hand-puppet, put the hand-puppet in jail, and I get to keep all the money.” PeopleIfsLittlesStatesHandsFictionGunPoliceCaughtCorporationsRanExecutivesJailShieldsPuppetsLiabilityLittle Hands Author:Stefan Molyneux
“If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsTryingDoeFormDesireClearHonestHonestyInformationInvolvedDegreesWhat You WantBeing HonestDestructiveManipulationDictatorWithholdingWithholding Information Author:Stefan Molyneux
“Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.” IfsPoliticalMovementEmpathyPrejudiceComplainingCantPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessEmpatheticLack Of Empathy Author:Stefan Molyneux
“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.” PeopleIfsRememberTurnsWaterDestinyCrazyDangerousPersonalityDiseaseSurroundTribesEnd TimesOur DestinySpend TimeTribalismContainers Author:Stefan Molyneux
“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you’re very Pro-Gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous…) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.” PeopleIfsNeedsShouldBelieveHandsGovernmentPoliticalCoursesMoralHonestNeededGunPoliceElitesVirtuousOwnershipGun ControlPro GunJust BelieveAnti GunMinionsGun Ownership Author:Stefan Molyneux
“The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?” IfsBelieveKindPersonsDoeAcceptingConversationAuthorityArgumentStatementsBelieve In GodBowsRulersAggressionThreateningIf You BelieveAnarchist Author: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.” IfsMenMurderCellsJailOne ManMedalAnother ManPension Author:Stefan Molyneux
“If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.” IfsThinkingNeedsChildrenSoundEarsHappy Children Author:Stefan Molyneux
“Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.” IfsShowsWould BeDownloads Author:Stefan Molyneux
“If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.” IfsFeelsCan DoDespairGaps Author:Stefan Molyneux
