“On the collective level, the global trade network turns droughts and floods into business opportunities, and makes it possible to overcome food… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“What Rwanda earned from an entire year of looting Congolese coltan, the Chinese earn in a single day of peaceful commerce.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Ours is the first time in history that the world is dominated by a peace-loving elite – politicians, business people, intellectuals and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Since it is all based on statistics, the size of the company’s database is the key to making accurate predictions” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Sapiens often use visual marks such as a turban, a beard or a business suit to signal ‘you can trust me, I… — 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
“Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one. We are consequently wreaking… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fewer than 5,000 British officials, about 40,000–70,000 British soldiers, and perhaps another 100,000 British business… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The scientist who says her life is meaningful because she increases the store of human knowledge, the soldier who declares that his… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Throughout the world, more and more entrepreneurs, engineers, experts, scholars, lawyers and managers are called to join the empire. They must ponder… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the… — 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
