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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. "
Jordan Peterson
Politics
Think
Country
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" It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable. "
Jordan Peterson
Admit
Best
Interest
" Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption. "
Jordan Peterson
Control
Women
Powerful
" I don't really regard myself as a political figure. "
Jordan Peterson
Really
Figure
Political
" We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. "
Jordan Peterson
Then
Them
Out
" 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
Group
End
You
" The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are. "
Jordan Peterson
Think
Us
TV
" If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. "
Jordan Peterson
Never
Salt
Worth
" You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you. "
Jordan Peterson
You
Truth
Tell
" Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left. "
Jordan Peterson
Left
Obviously
Radical
" Abortion is clearly wrong. "
Jordan Peterson
Abortion
Wrong
Clearly
" 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
Teacher
Me
Better
" I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification. "
Jordan Peterson
Support
Acts
Participate
" My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. "
Jordan Peterson
Record
Publication
Me
" Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. "
Jordan Peterson
You
People
Other
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Say
You
Like
" 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
" People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. "
Jordan Peterson
People
Straight
Them
" The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence. "
Jordan Peterson
People
Admit
Want
" I like working-class people, generally speaking. "
Jordan Peterson
Speaking
Like
People
" Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination. "
Jordan Peterson
Think
Morality
Identity
" It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. "
Jordan Peterson
Human Nature
Human
Nature
" If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. "
Jordan Peterson
You
Your
Ground
" Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed. "
Jordan Peterson
Most
Kids
Baby
" I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. "
Jordan Peterson
Touch
Where
Believe
" I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature. "
Jordan Peterson
Nature
Strange
Saying
" 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
" In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures. "
Jordan Peterson
West
Religion
Tradition
" 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
Life
Live
Struggle
" If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.' "
Jordan Peterson
Organization
Look
Women
" 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
Structure
Over
You