“Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator. Having” — 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… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How many Indians today would want to call a vote to divest themselves of democracy, English, the railway network, the legal system,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“People feel bound by democratic elections only when they share a basic bond with most other voters. [...] Democratic elections usually work… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Present-day democratic structures just cannot collect and process the relevant data fast enough, and most voters don’t understand biology and cybernetics well… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of having democratic elections when the algorithms know not only how each person is going to vote, but also… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Ordinary voters are beginning to sense that the democratic mechanism no longer empowers them. The world is changing all around, and they… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“People feel bound by democratic elections only when they share a basic bond with most other voters. If the experience of other… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Google and Facebook algorithms not only know exactly how you feel, they also know myriad other things about you that you… — 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
![“People feel bound by democratic elections only when they share a basic bond with most other voters. [...] Democratic elections usually work only within populations that have done prior common bond, such as shared religious beliefs and national myths.” quote by Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f26/yuval-noah-harari-100_democracy_people-feel-bound-by-democratic-election_2168105.jpg)
