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" 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

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Record

Publication

" 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. "

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

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

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Eyes

Open

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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 multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. "

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

" 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. "

" Everything isn't political. "

Jordan Peterson

Everything

Political

" There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s. "

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

" Abortion is clearly wrong. "

" 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. "

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

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

Jordan Peterson

Speaking

People

" 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. "

" I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest. "

Jordan Peterson

I Am

Detest

" 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. "

" No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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