{"author":"Stefan Molyneux","author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux","total_quotes":129,"quotes":[{"text":"To be yourself is in many ways, is to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.To be alive, to be in a relationship is to constantly court inconvenience to others and out of that inconvenience can come enormous growth. I simply work as an imperasist. Empiricism comes first. So, I speak things that are inconvenient to others but, true for me. I observe their response. It's incredibly easy to find out the truth in your relationships. All you do is speak the truth. You speak the truth about what's on your mind to those around you and their true natures will be revealed in about 5 seconds.You have honesty in your relationships. You speak the truth about your experience, thought's, and feelings in your relationships and then you do not control how other people respond. Your as honest as can be and you simply observe how they respond. It's like that spray you use to see the lasers in the room. Honesty reveals everything.OK So, if these people constantly sacrifice my happiness, security, and mental health for the sake of their petty emotional selfish needs then I could choose to stay in those relationships if I want. I mean, I could choose to continue to hire an employee who steals from me everyday. I just have to be aware that he's stealing from me everyday.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["family","honesty","relationships"],"id":1130,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"Can social progress be made without government?It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be achieved without rape? Can profitability be achieved without theft? Can economic growth be achieved without the mass indebted enslavement and counterfeiting of the federal reserve?'.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["anarchy","austrian-school-of-economics","freedom","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","philosophy","voluntaryism"],"id":1641,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change.As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["faith","freedomain-radio","government","libertarian","propaganda","skepticism","stefan-molyneux"],"id":11137,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["anarchy","freedom","libertarian","liberty","philosophy","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":25010,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["freedom","liberty","nap","non-aggression-principle","peaceful-parenting","philosophy","psychology","voluntaryism"],"id":29782,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"Bullying is an attack upon the runts of the litter - the weak of the species, and it is predicated on a lack of bond with the parents. If a child has a secure bond with the parents, that forms a force-field around the child in terms of bullying. If the child does not have a strong bond with the parents, then it's like being separated from the herd - those are the ones who get picked off by the human predators in childhood and adulthood. So keep your contacts as close as you can, they provide an amazing shield against bullies and users.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["bully","bullying","death","ethics","evolution","morality","species","stefan-molyneux","wisdom"],"id":31922,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["anarchy","ancap","capitalism","collectivism","free","free-markets","government","individualism","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","non-aggression-principle","statism","superstition","trade","voluntaryism"],"id":34570,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They're only allowed as much reality as serves the masters. But they're not allowed any reality which disturbs their masters...","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["delusion","people","philosophy","reality","society"],"id":42519,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"Pulse proximity is not intimacy.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["freedom","philosophy","psychology","relationships","self-knowledge"],"id":46174,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and economic reality.The fireworks are the glowing tears of your children's incinerated futures.Cheer happy slaves - your only chains are your deluded joys. Cheer and sing, because for you, songs of death are easier than questions of life.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["anarchy","austrian-school-of-economics","delusion","freedom","government","liberty","nationalism","state","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":55116,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":129,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}