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"Organisms that have to cooperate and compete with other organisms of their type inevitably arrange themselves into hierarchies and that's been going on for so long (which is at least 300 million years) that our nervous systems have adapted to hierarchies as if they're a permanent element of being."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Aug 01, 2018

Quote taken from Rebel Wisdom - 'Jordan Peterson and the left, a new conversation?', with new interview with Jordan Peterson at 6:45.


"The patterns that govern a dominance hierarchy are the place from which ethics derive, and they evolved, and they're not arbitrary. That’s the other thing...what works in one dominance hierarchy works in another. "

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Nov 09, 2015

Quote taken from Transliminal - Dr Jordan B Peterson | 2015 interview at 43:17.


"We're much more sensitive to negative emotion for example than to positive emotion. So, you would be more unhappy if I took away your glass of water than you would be happy if I gave you one."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Oct 11, 2011

Quote taken from The Agenda with Steve Paikin - On Gratitude at 2:35.


"People think that the purpose of memory is to remember the past and that's not the purpose of memory. The purpose of memory is to extract out from the past, lessons to structure the future."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Mar 27, 2018

Quote taken from John Anderson. Conversations: Featuring Jordan B Peterson at 1:46.


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