Capitalism Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

17 Capitalism quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari connects the dots between past economic shifts and future possibilities across seventeen succinct statements. His analytical style frames capitalism as an evolving narrative rather than a static system.

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“Capitalism distinguishes ‘capital’ from mere ‘wealth’.”

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“Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference coupled with greed.”

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“This is the fly in the ointment of free-market capitalism. It cannot ensure that profits are gained in a fair way, or…

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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…

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“Some religions, such as Christianity and Nazism, have killed millions out of burning hatred. Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference…

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“Capitalism won the Cold War because distributed data processing works better than centralized data processing, at least in periods of accelerating changes.”

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“First, capitalism has created a world that nobody but a capitalist is capable of running. The only serious attempt to manage the…

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“For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then…

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“Capitalism did not defeat communism because capitalism was more ethical, because individual liberties are sacred or because God was angry with the…

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“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities…

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“In the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution created a huge urban proletariat, and socialism spread because no other creed managed to answer…

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“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naive as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no…

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“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities…

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“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naïve as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no…

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“Capitalism began as a theory about how the economy functions. It was both descriptive and prescriptive – it offered an account of…

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“The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the…

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“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further…

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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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“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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