Peterson: "Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open."

Peterson: "To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there."

Peterson: "Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday."

Peterson: "You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another."

Peterson: "We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out."

Peterson: "We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another."

Peterson: "Power is competence."

Peterson: "It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure."

Peterson: "Abortion is clearly wrong."

Peterson: "The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood."

Peterson: "The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory."

Peterson: "Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life."

Peterson: "Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell."

Peterson: "Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous."

Peterson: "It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city."

Peterson: "The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence."

Peterson: "Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering."

Peterson: "The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can."

Peterson: "If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards."

Peterson: "If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect."

Peterson: "When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation."