# Quote — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

> When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.

- Author: [Jordan B. Peterson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson.md)
- Book: [12 Rules for Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life.md)
- Page: 4
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson#12_Rules_for_Life_(2017)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/when-the-aristocracy

## More from this book

> People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.

p. 250 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/people-organize-their.md)

> 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.

p. 242 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/it-took-untold.md)

> Was it really a good thing, for example, to so dramatically liberalize the divorce laws in the 1960s? It’s not clear to me that the children whose lives were destabilized by the hypothetical freedom this attempt at liberation introduced would say so. Horror and terror lurk behind the walls provided so wisely by our ancestors. We tear them down at our peril. We skate, unconsciously, on thin ice, with deep, cold waters below, where unimaginable monsters lurk.

p. 119 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/12-rules-for-life/was-it-really.md)