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 will do the trick.

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

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

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.

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

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

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

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

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

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.

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

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

That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

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

Abortion is clearly wrong.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

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

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

You can't go backward in life.