Jordan Peterson Quotes

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

I believe people are wonderful. The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives.

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

A moment of self-giving lifecan conquer the sorrowsof many long years

We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.

We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.

To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes this country: young, curious, brimming with idealism and hope - and a real, honest compassion.