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" 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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Jordan Peterson

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" We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. "

" In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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