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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. "

Jordan Peterson

Man

Respect

Who

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" Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved. "

" A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced. "

" Power is competence. "

Jordan Peterson

Power

Competence

" 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. "

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

" The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. "

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

" I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. "

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

" You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists. "

Jordan Peterson

Yes

Dragon

" Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. "

Jordan Peterson

Eyes

Open

" Everything isn't political. "

Jordan Peterson

Everything

Political

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it. "

" It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate. "

" 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. "

" I like working-class people, generally speaking. "

Jordan Peterson

Speaking

People

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

" 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. "

" Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. "

Jordan Peterson

Mysterious

Music

" My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. "

Jordan Peterson

Record

Publication

" There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men. "

" The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are. "

Jordan Peterson

Think

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