Stanley Zitek

“if you are pussy or suspect you might be a pussy, the first step is acknowledging that you would like to change that about yourself. Self-awareness is a huge bit of self-improvement and something a great many egos can’t handle.”
― Clay Martin, Prairie Fire: Guidebook for Surviving Civil War 2

“Of course, my socialist colleagues and I weren’t out to hurt anyone – quite the reverse. We were out to improve things – but we were going to start with other people. I came to see the temptation in this logic, the obvious flaw, the danger – but could also see that it did not exclusively characterize socialism. Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay”
― Jordan B. Peterson