Animals Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

“giant brains so rare in the animal kingdom?”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

“No other animal had ever moved into such a huge variety of radically different habitats so quickly, everywhere using virtually the same…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Even plants and animals were mechanised. Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals stopped being viewed as living creatures…

— 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

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

I'm vegan, though not completely religious about it. While writing 'Sapiens,' I became familiar with how we treat animals in the meat…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Each of us bears billions of one-celled creatures within us, and not just as free-riders. They are our best friends, and deadliest…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“how the foragers completely reshaped the ecology of our planet long before the first agricultural village was built. The wandering bands of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“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

“Ironically, the same scientific disciplines which shape our milk machines and egg machines have lately demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that mammals and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Today, the earth’s continents are home to billions of Sapiens. If you took all these people and put them on a large…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We assume that a large brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities and complex social structures are huge advantages. Only in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“After all, when ‘the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become’ He resolved to ‘wipe from the…

— Yuval Noah Harari