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"You need to have the capacity for danger, you need to be dangerous. But, you have to learn how to not use it accept when it's necessary and that is not the same as being harmless. Harmless? That's a terrible virtue, it's like a rabbit. There's nothing virtuous about harmlessness. It just means you're ineffectual."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Oct 30, 2018

Quote taken from Jordan Peterson: “There was plenty of motivation to take me out. It just didn't work" | British GQ at 59:54.


"You need to have the capacity for danger, you need to be dangerous. But, you have to learn how to not use it accept when it's necessary and that is not the same as being harmless. Harmless? That's a terrible virtue, it's like a rabbit. There's nothing virtuous about harmlessness. It just means you're ineffectual."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Oct 30, 2018

Quote taken from Jordan Peterson: “There was plenty of motivation to take me out. It just didn't work" | British GQ at 59:54.


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