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" 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. "

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" The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood. "

Jordan Peterson

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Dead

Wood

" I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don't know exactly what's going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what's inside of them without being part of them. "

" Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated. "

" There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. "

" 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. "

" You can't go backward in life. "

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

" 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. "

" No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

Better

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

" To master a new technology, you have to play with it. "

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

" If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. "

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

" Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. "

" 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. "

" The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. "

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

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

" 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. "

" One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women! "

" I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses. "

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

Jordan Peterson

Speaking

People

" Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. "

" Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler. "

" 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. "

" 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. "