# Quote — Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning

> Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion—and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings.

- Author: [Jordan B. Peterson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson.md)
- Book: [Maps of Meaning](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/maps-of-meaning.md)
- Page: 78
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/maps-of-meaning/behavior-is-imitated

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> 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.

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> Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.

p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/maps-of-meaning/every-explorer-is-therefore.md)