Jordan Peterson Violence Quotes

The only time no ever means no in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

When you have something to say, silence is a lie. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world ~ Jordan B. Peterson

You are not simply your own possession to torture and mistreat ~ Jordan B. Peterson

You can neither remember nor forget what you do not understand. ~ - Jordan Peterson

It's the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Don't use language instrumentally ~ Jordan B. Peterson

The forces of tyranny expand inexorably to fill the space made available for their existence. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

You look at the world through a story. You can't help it. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay ~ Jordan B. Peterson

You're not perfect just the way you are. You could be better! ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods. ~ Jordan Peterson

Alternatively, perfection might be regarded as the absence of all unnecessary things, and the pleasures of an ascetic life. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

What do we see when we don't know what we're looking at? ~ Jordan B. Peterson

The most intense hatreds and also sometimes the most intense love is within families. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Marijuana isn't bad for everyone any more than alcohol is bad for everyone. Sometimes it even appears to improve people. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

trust is an unbelievably powerful economic force maybe the most powerful economic force ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Here's the fundamental problem: group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual. That sentence should be written in capital letters. Every person is unique - and not just in a trivial manner: importantly, significantly, meaningfully unique. Group membership cannot capture that variability. Period. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

What should you do, when you don't know what to do? Tell the truth. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

you're much better off to confront your fears head on than you are to wait and let them find you ~ Jordan B. Peterson

If you start with little you start with more possibility. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise control over what other people think and say. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

It is the primary duty of parents to make their children socially desirable. That will provide the child with opportunity, self-regard, and security. It's more important even than fostering individual identity. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown. ~ Jordan Peterson

How hard someone [a child] is hit, and why they are hit, cannot merely be ignored when
speaking of hitting. Timing, part of context, is also of crucial importance. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

The way that you set the world straight is by constraining the malevolence in your own heart.

(From "Identity politics and the Marxist lie of white privilege" on YouTube) ~ Jordan B. Peterson

If you take the low road than that wins and it gets a little stronger because everything that wins neurologically gets a little stronger. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

...the 1960s, a decade whose excesses led to a general denigration of adulthood, an unthinking disbelief in the existence of competent power, and the inability to distinguish between the chaos of immaturity and responsible freedom. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

I have clients who are nowhere near as insane as their family is, but they're the people who have been targeted with the mental illnesses because that's convenient for everyone involved. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

The fact that power plays a role in human motivation does not mean that it plays the only role, or even the primary role ... Beware of single cause interpretations--and beware the people who purvey them. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

To do something, you have to VALUE something. It is a definitional issue. Because, to DO something, is to ACT OUT the proposition that the thing you are doing, the thing you are AIMING at, let's say, is PREFERABLE to the thing you have. And preferable means that you will do it. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities. ~ Jordan Peterson

Inequality is the deepest of problems, built into the structure of reality itself, and will not be solved by the presumptuous, ideology-inspiring retooling of the rare free, stable and productive democracies of the world. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

It's a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it's a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Rules are there for a reason. You are only allowed to break them if you are a master. If
you're not a master, don't confuse your ignorance with creativity or style. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Our behavioral patterns are exceedingly complex, and psychology is a young science. The scope of our behavioral wisdom exceeds the breadth of our explicit interpretation. We act, even instruct, and yet do not understand. How can we do what we cannot explain? ~ Jordan B. Peterson

if you adopt a sufficiently profound mode of being, if you attempt to do that, then the mere act of lifting up that weight is enough to justify the fact that you are insufficient and mortal and bound by tragedy ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is and you should know what your myth is, because it might be a tragedy. And maybe you don't want it to be. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you're constantly a good person with a minimum of effort. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you aare always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

if there are things that upset you, chaotic, terrible, serpentine monstrous underworld things that threaten you, the best thing to do is to open your eyes, get your speech organized, and go out and confront the thing, and make the world out of it ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. ~ Abdallah II Of Jordan

To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause? That is hell. And once in hell it is very easy to curse being itself and no wonder. But it's not justifiable and that's why the king of the damned is a poor judge of being. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

When the internal critic puts you down using such comparisons, here's how it operates:
First, it selects a single, arbitrary domain of comparison ( fame, maybe, or power).
Then it acts as if that domain is the only one that is relevant. Then it contrasts you unfavorably with someone truly stellar, within that domain.

It can take that final step even further, using the unbridgeable gap between you and its target of comparison as evidence for the fundamental injustice of life. That way your motivation to do anything at all can be most effectively undermined. ~ 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. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence of group-centred belief makes conflict with other groups inevitable. In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaningless, and that is no improvement at all. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20. ~ Neil Jordan

Maybe you feel a bit stupid about it, but you do it anyway. And you do the same thing tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. And, with each day, your baseline of comparison gets a little higher, and that's magic. That's compound interest. Do that for three years and your life will be entirely different ~ Jordan B. Peterson

The modern mind, which regards itself as having transcended the domain of
the magical, is nonetheless still endlessly capable of "irrational" (read motivated)
reactions. We fall under the spell of experience whenever we attribute our frustration, aggression, devotion or lust to the person or situation that exists as the proximal "cause" of such agitation. We are not yet "objective," even in our most clear-headed moments (and thank God for that). ~ Jordan B. Peterson

If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.

For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything - anything - to defend ourselves against that return. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

What were you supposed to do, talking to a hologram of a dead man, when a younger version of that man was still alive? Should you offer condolences?
Jordan decided that really wasn't necessary. ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

Of course, my socialist colleagues and I weren't out to hurt anyone – quite the reverse. We were out to improve things – but we were going to start with other people. I came to see the temptation in this logic, the obvious flaw, the danger – but could also see that it did not exclusively characterize socialism. Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Hating life, despising life - even for the genuine pain that life inflicts - merely serves to make life itself worse, unbearably worse. There is no genuine protest in that. There is no goodness in that, only the desire to produce suffering, for the sake of suffering. That is the very essence of evil. People who come to that kind of thinking are one step from total mayhem. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

In the Christian tradition, Christ is identified with the Logos. The Logos is the Word of God. That word transformed chaos into order at the beginning of time. In his human form, Christ sacrificed himself voluntarily to the truth, to the good, to God. In consequence, He died and was reborn. The Word that produced order from Chaos sacrifices everything, even itself, to God. That single sentence, beyond comprehension, sums up Christianity, Every bit of learning is a little death. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now. ~ Cassandra Peterson

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit. ~ Robert Jordan

Careful how you judge others. At some point you have been, or will be all of them."
― Frank Ruhl Peterson ~ Frank Ruhl Peterson

Thinking leads inexorably to the abyss. It did not work for Tolstoy. It might not even have worked for Nietzsche, who arguably thought more clearly about such things than anyone in history. But if it is not thinking that can be relied upon in the direst of situations, what is left? Thought, after all, is the highest of human achievements, is it not?
Perhaps not.
Something supersedes thinking, despite its truly awesome power. When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations - in the depths - it's noticing, not thinking, that does the trick. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have. ~ Michael Jordan

Rejection of the unknown is tantamount to "identification with the devil," the mythological counterpart and eternal adversary of the world-creating exploratory hero. Such rejection and identification is a consequence of Luciferian pride, which states: all that I know is all that is necessary to know. This pride is totalitarian assumption of omniscience – is adoption of "God's place" by "reason" – is something that inevitably generates a state of personal and social being indistinguishable from hell. This hell develops because creative exploration – impossible, without (humble) acknowledgment of the unknown – constitutes the process that constructs and maintains the protective adaptive structure that gives life much of its acceptable meaning ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Perhaps, if we lived properly, we would be able to tolerate the weight of our own self-consciousness. Perhaps, if we lived properly, we could withstand the knowledge of our own fragility and mortality, without the sense of aggrieved victimhood that produces, first, resentment, then envy, and then the desire for vengeance and destruction. Perhaps, if we lived properly, we wouldn't have to turn to totalitarian certainty to shield ourselves from the knowledge of our own insufficiency and ignorance. Perhaps we could come to avoid those pathways to Hell - and we have seen in the terrible twentieth century just how real Hell can be. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

We experience almost all the emotions that make life deep and engaging as a consequence of moving forward successfully towards something deeply desired and valued. The price we pay for that involvement is the inevitable creation of hierarchies of success, while the inevitable consequence is difference in outcome. Absolutely equality would therefore require the sacrifice of value itself - and then there would be nothing worth living for. We might instead note with gratitude that a complex, sophisticated culture allows for many games and many successful players, and that a well-structured culture allows the individuals that compose it to play and to win, in many different fashions. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth. ~ Scott Peterson

Software development is a cruel business. Every detail matters - just ~ Erik Peterson

Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces. ~ Ivars Peterson

missile frigate that's rolling and pitching is just as ~ Andrew Peterson

Who wants to get cake? - Following a pop quiz ~ Graham Peterson

Folks generally fear what's different and unknown to them. ~ Tracie Peterson

What shall I do with my parents? Act such that your actions justify the suffering they endured. To act to justify the suffering of your parents is to remember all the sacrifices that all the others who lived before you (not least your parents) have made for you in all the course of the terrible past, to be grateful for all the progress that has been thereby made, and then to act in accordance with that remembrance & gratitude. People sacrificed immensely to bring about what we have now. In many cases, they literally died for it - & we should act with some respect for that fact. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

You guys line up alphabetically by height. ~ Bill Peterson

never eat a fish without frying it. ~ Holie Peterson

Michael Jordan is sort of ... the hip-hop version of Dr. J ~ Michael Jordan

Blow the smoke off me and I'm not half bad. ~ Jerry Peterson

Power is in control, not reaction ~ Jerome Peterson

Toppling face first into a neat, fresh pile of Danny the carthorse's nuggets. ~ Andrew Peterson

Your mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work unless it's open. ~ Jordan Maxwell

If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences - and infer the motivation. ~ C.G. Jung

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security. ~ Abdallah II Of Jordan

Life is suffering
Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated
Truth is the handmaiden of love
Dialogue is the pathway to truth
Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn
To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small
So speech must be untrammeled
So that dialogue can take place
So that we can all humbly learn
So that truth can serve love
So that suffering can be ameliorated
So that we can all stumble forward to the Kingdom of God ~ Jordan B. Peterson

A person had to keep herself in one piece when everything around her was falling apart. ~ Tracie Peterson

Anger and bitterness are normal feelings, but they're like cancer if you can't control them. ~ Andrew Peterson

How many times did a wicked man come to power and suddenly find his kingdom too small? ~ Andrew Peterson