Yuval Noah Harari

“projects and spreading”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Then came the”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This trust is”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“of a needle than”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History’s Biggest Fraud”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“most sacred commandment”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“at least a proxy”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The Data Religion”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Nobody is in charge of supplying bread to London.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Credit is the economic manifestation of trust.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“fantasy gives meaning to the suffering.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Fictions enable us to cooperate better.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A person who does not crave cannot suffer.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the Chinese air-purification market is booming.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“giant brains so rare in the animal kingdom?”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“However, only rarely do scientists dictate the scientific agenda.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We no longer say, ‘It’s in their blood.’ We say, ‘It’s in their culture.’ Thus”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“As already mentioned, some say that by 2050 a few humans will already be a-mortal.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This ‘useless class’ will not merely be unemployed – it will be unemployable.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the modern animal industry is not motivated by animosity. Again, it is fuelled by indifference.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Modern businesspeople and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A chimpanzee can’t win an argument with a Homo sapiens, but the ape can rip the man apart like a rag doll.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Increasingly, our decisions will be made by the algorithms that surround us. Whenever there is a big dilemma, you just ask Google…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Premodern traditions of knowledge such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Confucianism asserted that everything that is important to know about the world…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“People usually compare themselves to their more fortunate contemporaries rather than to their ill-fated ancestors.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The Google and Facebook algorithms not only know exactly how you feel, they also know myriad other things about you that you…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“So in the struggle against natural calamities such as AIDS and Ebola, the scales are tipping in humanity’s favour. But what about…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“In the end he came to the realisation that suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If cooperation is the key, how come the ants and bees did not beat us to the nuclear bomb even though they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“raises the possibility that the immense improvement in material conditions over the last two centuries was offset by the collapse of the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was…

— Yuval Noah Harari