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" 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. "

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" Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. "

Jordan Peterson

Community

Family

Together

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification. "

" 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 suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

Change

Chaos

" I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Power is competence. "

Jordan Peterson

Power

Competence

" People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. "

" 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. "

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

Jordan Peterson

Eyes

Open

" 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. "