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The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.
— Stefan Molyneux
The government is ethics rape in perpetuity
— Stefan Molyneux
Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
— Stefan Molyneux
[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.
— Mitch Daniels
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
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
— Marco Rubio
Rights are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.
— Stefan Molyneux
The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as "we," like football fans talking about the home team.
— Joseph Sobran
It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus
— Stefan Molyneux
The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
— Stefan Molyneux
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. — Lysander Spooner
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. — Lysander Spooner
Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.
— Ayn Rand
The man who is not permitted to own is owned.
— George Santayana
Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.
— Stefan Molyneux
The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?
— Stefan Molyneux
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
— H.L. Mencken
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.
— Frederic Bastiat
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
— Penn Jillette
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
— Ludwig Von Mises
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
— Rose Wilder Lane
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
— Isabel Paterson
History is the same story with different costumes.
— Stefan Molyneux
Statism is an unnatural disaster.
— Stefan Molyneux
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
— Milton Friedman
Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.
— Stefan Molyneux
No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.
— Lysander Spooner
If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
— Foster Friess
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Free Shit for Idiots — Stefan Molyneux
Free Shit for Idiots — Stefan Molyneux
Statism ends with an eye roll.
— Stefan Molyneux
Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.
— Ron Paul
Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.
— Doug Stanhope
All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.
— Stefan Molyneux
Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism
— Jonah Goldberg
Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.
— Stefan Molyneux
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion.
— Frederic Bastiat
Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.
— Stefan Molyneux
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
— Stefan Molyneux
Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.
— Isabel Paterson
An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.
— Stefan Molyneux
Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.
— Murray N. Rothbard
To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
— Murray N. Rothbard
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.
— Ayn Rand
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
— Ayn Rand
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
— Gustave De Molinari
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.
— A.E. Samaan
Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.
— A.E. Samaan
Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.
— Stefan Molyneux
People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.
— Jeffrey Tucker
The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.
— Leonard Read
Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist - neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation.
— Leonard Peikoff
Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness) — Angelo Codevilla
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness) — Angelo Codevilla
Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.
— Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert
The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
— Isabel Paterson
Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection.
— James C. Scott
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
— Stefan Molyneux