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" 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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" Abortion is clearly wrong. "

" It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything. "

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" 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. "

" It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words. "

" People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story. "

" Become aware of your own insufficiency. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "