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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

" The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. "

" Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left. "

" Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. "

Jordan Peterson

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

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

Jordan Peterson

Speaking

People

" 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

Nature

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. "

" The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious. "

" We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. "

" 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? "

" It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. "

" 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. "

" Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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