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" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Structure
Over
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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. "
Jordan Peterson
Liberals
Up
Nature
" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "
Jordan Peterson
Ever
Lying
Lie
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Think
Gender
Identity
" 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
Man
Respect
Who
" To master a new technology, you have to play with it. "
Jordan Peterson
You
Play
Master
" 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
" It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. "
Jordan Peterson
Happiness
People
Responsibility
" No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. "
Jordan Peterson
Life
Own
Responsibility
" If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. "
Jordan Peterson
You
Your
Ground
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Wise
Marriage
Truth
" 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
" 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
" Abortion is clearly wrong. "
Jordan Peterson
Abortion
Wrong
Clearly
" 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
" 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
Accept
Little
" 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
More
" It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. "
Jordan Peterson
Learn
Yourself
You
" The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. "
Jordan Peterson
Poor
Health
Inequality
" 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
" Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. "
Jordan Peterson
Mysterious
Music
Me
" 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
Build
Art
Story
" I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature. "
Jordan Peterson
Nature
Strange
Saying
" 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. "
Jordan Peterson
Inequality
People
Problem
" I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more. "
Jordan Peterson
Politics
Think
Country
" People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. "
Jordan Peterson
People
Straight
Them
" 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
" All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents. "
Jordan Peterson
Nobody
Than
Better
" We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. "
Jordan Peterson
Then
Them
Out
" If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. "
Jordan Peterson
Never
Salt
Worth
" Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination. "
Jordan Peterson
Think
Morality
Identity