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"Am I in favor of a system that would ensure all we ever received from the media was truth? Sure, if such a system could be produced. But I don't think for a second that's even vaguely possible, even technically possible."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Nov 07, 2018

Quote taken from Jordan Peterson at Room for Discussion at 1:43:27.


"The problem on the right is...once the hierarchy is established, those who dominate the top have every right to overstate the moral virtue of the hierarchy because it privilidges them in particular. On the left, the problem is is that it's not easy to distinguish between care for the dispossessed and hatred for those who occupy positions of well, you could say authority."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Feb 21, 2019

Quote taken from Higher Ed & Our Cultural Inflection Point: JB Peterson/Stephen Blackwood at 14:18.


"We have to stop allowing in our public discourse the unquestioned assumption that just because I manifest more pity in the moment than you do then I'm somehow a morally superior individual."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Sep 13, 2018

Quote taken from Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson & Douglas Murray - Dublin at 1:48:46.


"Something that's really important to do when you read history is that...It's easy to cast yourself as a victim, it's easy to cast yourself as the person who would have been heroic in the circumstance, but it's also unbelievably useful to understand that, there's a good chance had you been in those situations that you wouldn't have been on the side of the good guys. It's really a terrible realization, but it's necessary realization."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Dec 29, 2018

Quote taken from Jocko Podcast 155 w/ Jordan Peterson: Jordan Peterson and Jocko VS. Evil. The Gulag at 11:19.


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