“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
“We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem,” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
