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" Abortion is clearly wrong. "

Jordan Peterson

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" I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more. "

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" The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity. "

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" If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect. "

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" You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you. "

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" It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. "

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" Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it. "

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" Power is competence. "

Jordan Peterson

" I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree. "

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" There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s. "

Jordan Peterson

" I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history. "

Jordan Peterson

" Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail? "

Jordan Peterson

" You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another. "

Jordan Peterson

" I don't really regard myself as a political figure. "

Jordan Peterson

" It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. "

Jordan Peterson

" When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation. "

Jordan Peterson

" It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. "

Jordan Peterson

" Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. "

Jordan Peterson

" Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly. "

Jordan Peterson

" All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents. "

Jordan Peterson

" The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. "

Jordan Peterson

" I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.' "

Jordan Peterson

" I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it. "

Jordan Peterson

" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "

Jordan Peterson

" The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious. "

Jordan Peterson

" If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. "

Jordan Peterson

" I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation. "

Jordan Peterson

" Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. "

Jordan Peterson

" Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. "

Jordan Peterson

" The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that. "

Jordan Peterson

" To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there. "

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