451 Quotes by Jordan B. Peterson

You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.

You look at the world through a story. You can’t help it.

Your inaction, inertia and cynicism removes from the world that part of you that could learn to quell suffering and make peace.

Who cares if you are prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?

People who live by the same code are rendered mutually predictable to one another. They act in keeping with each other’s expectations and desires. They can cooperate. They can even compete peacefully, because everyone knows what to expect from everyone else. A shared belief system, partly psychological, partly acted out, simplifies everyone – in their own eyes, and in the eyes of others.

Thus, they did not concern themselves with what the world was, as a scientist might have it, but with how a human being should act. I suggested that our ancestors portrayed the world as a stage – a drama – instead of a place of objects. I described how I had come to believe that the constituent elements of the world as drama were order and chaos, and not material things.

And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology. It’s part of an evil triad: arrogance, deceit, and resentment. Nothing causes more harm than this underworld Trinity.

Without free speech there is no true thought.