It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse. Stefan Molyneux More Quotes by Stefan Molyneux More Quotes From 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. Stefan Molyneux government gun believe It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation. Stefan Molyneux war children hands 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. Stefan Molyneux jail gun hands The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place. Stefan Molyneux leftovers stolen firsts The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies. Stefan Molyneux truth-is hurt lying The law is an opinion with a gun. Stefan Molyneux opinion gun law We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow. Stefan Molyneux ocean lying children 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. Stefan Molyneux turkeys weather sports Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are. Stefan Molyneux who-you-are 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. Stefan Molyneux honesty desire thinking There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions. Stefan Molyneux political gun hands Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned wars, we're not creating a permanent underclass, we're not trapping them in shitty schools where they graduate unable to read, WE DO CARE ABOUT THE POOR, and that's why we want the State out of their way!! Stefan Molyneux creating war school When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign. Stefan Molyneux government smoking needs The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state. Stefan Molyneux essentials growth enemy 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. Stefan Molyneux empathy prejudice political 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. Stefan Molyneux evil-people government gun 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. Stefan Molyneux failure ideas fall Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you. Stefan Molyneux democracy levels suicide The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. Stefan Molyneux mental-health evil steps Anger is the immune system of the soul. 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