Animal Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

21 Animal quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari’s reflections on animals examine the impact of technology and history on our relationship with other species. His forward‑thinking lens challenges us to rethink future coexistence.

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“And, indeed, compared to other animals, humans are born prematurely, when many of their vital systems are still underdeveloped.”

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“meat and dairy industries are based on breaking the most fundamental emotional bond in the mammal kingdom.”

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

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

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Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal.

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“fact, however, the lesson is just the opposite. The story demonstrates that by humanising animals we usually underestimate animal cognition and ignore…

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“It’s reasonable to assume, for example, that bulls prefer to spend their days wandering over open prairies in the company of other…

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“Some may have been as hierarchical, tense and violent as the nastiest chimpanzee group, while others were as laid-back, peaceful and lascivious…

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“If it should never be allowed to do that, despite its superior intelligence and power, why is it ethical for humans to…

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If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But…

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

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Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in…

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“No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals – because the relationship…

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“(By the way, wolves – or at least their dog cousins – aren’t a hopeless case. A company called ‘No More Woof’…

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“Just as human politicians on election campaigns go around shaking hands and kissing babies, so aspirants to the top position in a…

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“This is no kindergarten fairy tale, but an extremely powerful myth that continues to shape the lives of billions of humans and…

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“Throughout this book we have repeatedly asked what makes humans superior to other animals. Dataism has a new and simple answer. In…

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“Does might make right? Is human life more precious than porcine life simply because the human collective is more powerful than the…

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“Many dairy cows live almost all their allotted years inside a small enclosure; standing, sitting and sleeping in their own urine and…

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“It is unsettling – and perhaps thrilling – to think that we Sapiens could at one time have sex with an animal…

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“emotions are not a uniquely human quality – they are common to all mammals (as well as to all birds and probably…

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“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new…

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“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.”

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“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order…

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“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled…

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“the Chinese air-purification market is booming.”

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“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified…

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“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in…

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“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.…

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“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,…

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“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread…

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“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something”

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“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single…

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

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“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in…

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