Jordan Peterson Quotes

I don't make decisions based on money.

Don't forget that some things count more than other things.

We value some lives more than others.

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

Some people need a command-and-control environment.

The ranking never lies.

I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.

If there's one thing that I have in this business, it's respect.

I think that soccer is one thing, and money is another thing.

The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place.

Doing the right things is more important than doing things right.

I work directly for the boss. I listen to everybody, but I have one man whose voice is louder than everybody else's.

One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy is through classification.

Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar structure and similar language, they find a way of dealing with each other.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant