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Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.

— Jordan Peterson Beyond Order (2021)

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If you are not capable of cruelty, then you are absolutely a victim of anyone who is.

Your values have to be hierarchically organized with something absolute at the top, because otherwise they do nothing but war.

It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Although Christ commits many acts that might be considered revolutionary, as we discussed in Rule I, He is nonetheless explicitly portrayed in the Gospels as the master of tradition.

Beyond Order (2021)

Like God, however, ideology is dead. The bloody excesses of the twentieth century killed it.

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