Jordan Peterson

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

— Jordan Peterson

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.

— Jordan Peterson

One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the…

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often…

— Jordan Peterson

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and…

— Jordan Peterson

You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the…

— Jordan Peterson

“To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish…

— 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…

— Jordan Peterson

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal…

— Jordan Peterson

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the…

— Jordan Peterson

You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it…

— Jordan Peterson

I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that,…

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

— Jordan Peterson

It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.

— Jordan Peterson

The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself…

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

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

— Jordan Peterson

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

— Jordan Peterson

I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

— Jordan Peterson