“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 Copy Share Image
“the modern animal industry is not motivated by animosity. Again, it is fuelled by indifference.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“meat and dairy industries are based on breaking the most fundamental emotional bond in the mammal kingdom.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“And, indeed, compared to other animals, humans are born prematurely, when many of their vital systems are still underdeveloped.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It is unsettling – and perhaps thrilling – to think that we Sapiens could at one time have sex with an animal… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“emotions are not a uniquely human quality – they are common to all mammals (as well as to all birds and probably… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Does might make right? Is human life more precious than porcine life simply because the human collective is more powerful than the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Many dairy cows live almost all their allotted years inside a small enclosure; standing, sitting and sleeping in their own urine and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If it should never be allowed to do that, despite its superior intelligence and power, why is it ethical for humans to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals – because the relationship… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Throughout this book we have repeatedly asked what makes humans superior to other animals. Dataism has a new and simple answer. In… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“This is no kindergarten fairy tale, but an extremely powerful myth that continues to shape the lives of billions of humans and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just as human politicians on election campaigns go around shaking hands and kissing babies, so aspirants to the top position in a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“(By the way, wolves – or at least their dog cousins – aren’t a hopeless case. A company called ‘No More Woof’… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Some may have been as hierarchical, tense and violent as the nastiest chimpanzee group, while others were as laid-back, peaceful and lascivious… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It’s reasonable to assume, for example, that bulls prefer to spend their days wandering over open prairies in the company of other… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“fact, however, the lesson is just the opposite. The story demonstrates that by humanising animals we usually underestimate animal cognition and ignore… — 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
