Latest Quotes

“Our parents weren’t right about everything. They did their best with what they had available to them and now we can do the same. Think about how much information has changed!”

— Emily Souder, Why It’s Time To Let Go Of This ‘Evidence’ In Support of Our Parents’ Decisions

“You're a mouth. That's what you are.”

— Lisa McGee, Erin Quinn, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Episode 1

“Well, I'm not being individual on my own.”

— Lisa McGee, Clare Devlin, Nicola Coughlan, Episode 1

“Don't say 'knickers' in front of your father. He can't cope.”

— Lisa McGee, Ma Mary Quinn, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Episode 1

“Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not enjoying this bomb.”

— Lisa McGee, Aunt Sarah, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Episode 1

“I should be allowed to express my individuality.”

— Lisa McGee, Erin Quinn, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Episode 1

“She's melting my head.”

— Lisa McGee, Ma Mary Quinn, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Episode 1

“Erin: Teenagers have rights, ya know? Ma Mary: Don't be ridiculous. Erin: They do, Ma. It's true.”

— Lisa McGee, Erin Quinn, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Episode 1

“The political is a tiny fraction of the world, and what I’m doing isn’t political: it’s psychological, or philosophical, or theological. The political element is peripheral.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley

“The problem with books and videos is that you can’t do anything else while you’re doing them, right? When you’re reading, you’re reading. When you’re watching a video, you can be distracted, but you have to pay attention to the video. But, if you’re listening to a podcast, you can be driving a forkl…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley

“It’s a catastrophe. It means that we learn half the lesson. We sort of learned half the lesson of the 20th century, right? And thank God we sort of learned half the lesson. But the other half has not been learned, and that’s not acceptable, not in the least. The data in the United States indicates t…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson

“The intellectuals, roughly speaking, have been complicit in failure to define the excesses of the left.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson

“There is no phenomena in social sciences, period, that is on firmer statistical and conceptual footing than IQ. There’s no phenomena that’s more robust. If you give people a set of tests that assess abstraction, and then you measure their average score on the set of tests of abstraction, and then yo…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson

“First of all, they said playing a clip of Jordan Peterson was like playing a clip of Hitler or Milo Yiannopoulos. I thought, 'well, let’s go a little easy on the Hitler comparisons, there, guys. You might want to save that for when it’s really necessary, because you don’t use…' It’s sacrilegious to…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley

“The problem with IQ tests is that they do produce group differences, and that’s unbelievably complicated and horrible. It’s complicated because it isn’t obvious how you should group people, if you’re going to do group analysis of IQ. For example, there’s more genetic diversity among Africans than th…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson

“I was a smart kid, and my head was full of ideas that I hadn’t earned. I could lay them out, but that doesn’t mean that they were mine or me.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley

“People like to imagine that they would be Schindler in Schindler’s List, but that’s wrong. The probability that you’ll be the perpetrator is much higher, especially merely the perpetrator that’s ensconced in silence, when silence is not the appropriate thing.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley

“I was interested in the great atrocities of the 20th century: the ones that were committed on the right and the ones that were committed on the left. But I was interested in it psychologically. What that means was, had I been there, what could have I done to not participate? So that’s what I’ve been…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley

“…the narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think we’re stupider than we are. People have a real hunger for deep intellectual dialog, and that can be met with these new technologies. That has revolutionary significance, and that’s starting to unfold.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley

“I started to understand that many of the things I was saying weren’t true. I didn't really believe them; they weren't really my thoughts; they made me feel weak, when I said them.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley