“the growth of the modern economy might turn out to be a colossal fraud.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference coupled with greed.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“This is the fly in the ointment of free-market capitalism. It cannot ensure that profits are gained in a fair way, or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“planets and even galaxies, but in the meantime the modern economy has had to find a better method of expanding.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products – contributing to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just as free-market capitalists believe in the invisible hand of the market, so Dataists believe in the invisible hand of the dataflow.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Capitalism won the Cold War because distributed data processing works better than centralized data processing, at least in periods of accelerating changes.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“What enables banks – and the entire economy – to survive and flourish is our trust in the future. This trust is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“First, capitalism has created a world that nobody but a capitalist is capable of running. The only serious attempt to manage the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, 'What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It is therefore impossible to understand the unification of humankind as a purely economic process. In order to understand how thousands of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages the outbreak of a plague caused people to raise their eyes towards heaven, and pray to God to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The good news is that for hundreds of years humankind has enjoyed a growing economy without falling prey to ecological meltdown. Many… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Capitalism began as a theory about how the economy functions. It was both descriptive and prescriptive – it offered an account of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The real nemesis of the modern economy is ecological collapse. Both scientific progress and economic growth take place within a brittle biosphere,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Money has an even darker side. For although money builds universal trust between strangers, this trust is invested not in humans, communities… — 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
