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" Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption. "

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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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like working-class people, generally speaking. "

Jordan Peterson

Speaking

People

" Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists. "

Jordan Peterson

Yes

Dragon

" 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

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

" You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to. "

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

Jordan Peterson

Eyes

Open

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Jordan Peterson

Think

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it. "

Jordan Peterson

Data

Little

" 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. "

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

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

" If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. "