Quotes from Jordan Peterson

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

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

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.

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

I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.