“our single global culture contains many different types of lifestyles and people,” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its typical beliefs, norms and values, but these are in constant flux.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We no longer say, ‘It’s in their blood.’ We say, ‘It’s in their culture.’ Thus” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A conscious effort has to be made to sustain laws, customs, procedures and manners, otherwise the social order would quickly collapse.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To colour all empires black and to disavow all imperial legacies is to reject most of human culture.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern culture is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The global empire being forged before our eyes is not governed by any particular state or ethnic group. Much like the Late… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just as Egyptians, Iranians and Turks adopted and adapted the imperial culture that they inherited from the original Arab conquerors, so today’s… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“...Money is also the apogee of human tolerance; money is more open-minded than language, state laws, culture codes, religious beliefs, and social… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of… — 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 particular nations as the engines of human progress, and concluded that these nations ought to bludgeon or even exterminate anyone standing in their way. It should be remembered, though, that Hitler and the Nazis represent only… — 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 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, live inside the body of their hosts. They multiply and spread from one host to the other, feeding off their hosts, weakening them, and sometimes even killing them. As long as the hosts live long enough… — 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 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
