Jordan Peterson Quotes

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I don't care much about conforming.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

I don't feel like I've ever fit into a specific mold ever since I was very young. That's what so cool about YouTube is that you can do whatever you want.

I'm fortunate because people can't put a label on me, which I embrace wholeheartedly.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I just don't conform very well.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

Society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.

I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.