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" Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. "
Jordan Peterson
Value
Free
Foundation
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" If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. "
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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
Great Men
Great
Men
" I don't really regard myself as a political figure. "
Jordan Peterson
Really
Figure
Political
" The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are. "
Jordan Peterson
Think
Us
TV
" My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. "
Jordan Peterson
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Publication
Me
" I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings. "
Jordan Peterson
Long
Meaning
Face
" 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
Men
Women
Same
" We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another. "
Jordan Peterson
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Marriage
Truth
" It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy. "
Jordan Peterson
Liberals
Up
Nature
" It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. "
Jordan Peterson
Learn
Yourself
You
" It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women. "
Jordan Peterson
Career
People
Men
" I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation. "
Jordan Peterson
Build
Art
Story
" As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. "
Jordan Peterson
Nature
I Am
Laziness
" The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious. "
Jordan Peterson
Obvious
Masculine
Assault
" It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. "
Jordan Peterson
Happiness
People
Responsibility
" 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
Ideas
Suffering
Difficult
" It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. "
Jordan Peterson
Human Nature
Human
Nature
" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "
Jordan Peterson
Ever
Lying
Lie
" Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. "
Jordan Peterson
Weak
You
Everything
" I've 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you're not naive after the first few thousand. I've helped people deal with things that most people can't imagine. "
Jordan Peterson
People
You
Practice
" 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
Relationship
Fail
Reality
" I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation. "
Jordan Peterson
Tyranny
Big
Civilization
" If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing. "
Jordan Peterson
You
Playing
She
" The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can. "
Jordan Peterson
Inequality
People
Problem
" I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory. "
Jordan Peterson
Long Time
Time
Control
" You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings. "
Jordan Peterson
Ideas
Heaven
Internet
" That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together. "
Jordan Peterson
Truth
Nature
Truth Is
" I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life? "
Jordan Peterson
Life
Education
Community
" It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate. "
Jordan Peterson
Government
Inappropriate
Too
" Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. "
Jordan Peterson
Think
Gender
Identity