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

Jordan Peterson

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" Everything isn't political. "

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" Power is competence. "

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

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" The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are. "

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

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" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "

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" It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy. "

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

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" 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? "

Jordan Peterson

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

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

Jordan Peterson

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

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

Jordan Peterson

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you. "

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" I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree. "

Jordan Peterson

" 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

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

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

Jordan Peterson

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

Jordan Peterson

" The most propagandistic element of 'Frozen' was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending. "

Jordan Peterson

" 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.' "

Jordan Peterson

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

Jordan Peterson

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

" You can't go backward in life. "

Jordan Peterson

" 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