Yuval Noah Harari

“journalists who inform society about and thus protect it from cheats and freeloaders. Most”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The most important economic resource is trust in the future,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Nature, it was claimed, rewarded merit with wealth while penalising indolence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the Agricultural Revolution was a terrible catastrophe.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Revolutions are, by definition, unpredictable. A predictable revolution never erupts. Why”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If the curtain is indeed about to drop on Sapiens history, we members of one of its final generations should devote some…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup. So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“During pre-industrial warfare more than 90 percent of war dead were killed by starvation, cold and disease rather than by weapons.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The subjective is something that exists depending on the consciousness and beliefs of a single individual. It disappears or changes if that…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“like the social instincts of chimps, those of humans were adapted only for small intimate groups. When the group grew too large,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Even if bad comes to worse and science cannot hold off the deluge, engineers could still build a hi-tech Noah’s Ark for…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Marie Antoinette allegedly advised the starving masses that if they ran out of bread, they should just eat cake instead.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products – contributing to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Allocate millions more to brain research, and every airport could be equipped with ultra-sophisticated FMRI scanners that could immediately recognise angry and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We should be careful, though, not to judge the Aché too quickly. Anthropologists who lived with them for years report that violence…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Even more money is transferred to the bank accounts of fashion designers, gym managers, dieticians, cosmeticians and plastic surgeons, who help us…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“All too often people confuse religion with superstition, spirituality, belief in supernatural powers or belief in gods. Religion is none of these…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution created a huge urban proletariat, and socialism spread because no other creed managed to answer…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Yet what happens if the greedy shoemaker increases his profits by paying employees less and increasing their work hours? The standard answer…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Science, industry and military technology intertwined only with the advent of the capitalist system and the Industrial Revolution. Once this relationship was…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The key to victory lies more in manipulation and cooperation than in exceptional personal skills.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We are conquering you for your own benefit,’ said the Persians.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The most dangerous thing about terrorism is the over-reaction to it.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“That’s why the theory of evolution cannot accept the idea of souls,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The truth hardly matters. What's written on your form is far more important.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If I could peg that nail anywhere in the cosmos, where should I peg it, and why there of all places?”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“our single global culture contains many different types of lifestyles and people,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The supermarket proved to be far stronger than the gulag.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Everyone always wants money because everyone else also always wants money,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“commandment is to link everything to the system, including heretics who don’t want to be plugged”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“How long will the Gilgamesh Project – the quest for immortality – take to complete?”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This minuscule 2 per cent of the earth’s surface constituted the stage on which history unfolded.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

— Yuval Noah Harari

“For millions of years we were enhanced chimpanzees. In the future, we may become oversized ants.”

— Yuval Noah Harari