Stefan Molyneux

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.

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

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

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.

There__ nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you__e alone you can be yourself, but when you__e in empty relationships you can__ even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it__ worse than no friends at all.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

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

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

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

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.