Stefan Molyneux Quotes

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

Big government squashes the human spirit

It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.

The legacy of the New Del was, more than anything else, a matter of ideological change. Henceforth, nearly everyone would look to the federal government for solutions to problems great and small, real and imagined, personal as well as social.

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

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.

Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control---all of which led us to this state in the first place... We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.