Jordan Peterson

“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.”

“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.”

“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 masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.”

“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.”

“Become aware of your own insufficiency.”

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

“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.”

“All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.”

“I don't really regard myself as a political figure.”

“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.”

“It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.”