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" The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence. "
Jordan Peterson
People
Admit
Want
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Then
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Out
" 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. "
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Some People
Want
Think
" The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. "
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Poor
Health
Inequality
" 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. "
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Truth
" Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. "
Jordan Peterson
Weak
You
Everything
" 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
Long Time
Time
Control
" It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. "
Jordan Peterson
Human Nature
Human
Nature
" If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing. "
Jordan Peterson
You
Playing
She
" I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature. "
Jordan Peterson
Nature
Strange
Saying
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Someone
Bad
Bad Habits
" My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. "
Jordan Peterson
Record
Publication
Me
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Job
Men
People
" Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left. "
Jordan Peterson
Left
Obviously
Radical
" Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. "
Jordan Peterson
Mysterious
Music
Me
" 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! "
Jordan Peterson
Women
Things
Over
" People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. "
Jordan Peterson
People
Straight
Them
" Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. "
Jordan Peterson
Ideas
Suffering
Difficult
" Power is competence. "
Jordan Peterson
Power
Competence
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Start
Yourself
Deception
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Crime
You
People
" The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that. "
Jordan Peterson
Life
Live
Struggle
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
You
Uncertainty
Truth
" 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? "
Jordan Peterson
Virtues
Going
Motivation
" If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.' "
Jordan Peterson
Organization
Look
Women
" 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
Most
Kids
Baby
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Ideas
Heaven
Internet
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
I Can
Know
Look
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Admit
Best
Interest
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Successful
You
Constitution
" If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. "
Jordan Peterson
Never
Salt
Worth