“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Liberalism will collapse on the day the system knows me better than I know myself.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A huge gulf is opening between liberal humanism and the latest findings of the life sciences, a gulf we cannot ignore much… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The third threat to liberalism is that some people will remain both indispensable and undecipherable, but they will constitute a small and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of the third millennium liberalism is threatened not by the philosophical idea that ‘there are no free individuals’, but… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“So far we have looked at two of the three practical threats to liberalism: firstly, that humans will lose their value completely;… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve. Even worse, by encouraging people to view themselves as isolated individuals,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Indeed, even Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and the other champions of the new scientific world view refuse to abandon liberalism. After dedicating… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If scientific discoveries and technological developments split humankind into a mass of useless humans and a small elite of upgraded superhumans, or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Splitting humankind into biological castes will destroy the foundations of liberal ideology. Liberalism can coexist with socio-economic gaps. Indeed, since it favours… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“So far we have looked at two of the three practical threats to liberalism: firstly, that humans will lose their value completely;… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Liberal politics is based on the idea that the voters know best, and there is no need for Big Brother to tell… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Yet what happens if the greedy shoemaker increases his profits by paying employees less and increasing their work hours? The standard answer is that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
