“equality and individual freedom as fundamental values. Yet the two values contradict each other. Equality” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just as medieval culture did not manage to square chivalry with Christianity, so the modern world fails to square liberty with equality.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans emerge from the womb like molten glass from a furnace. They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of the third millennium liberalism is threatened not by the philosophical idea that ‘there are no free individuals’, but… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Equality can be ensured only by curtailing the freedoms of those who are better off. Guaranteeing that every individual will be free… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The average person might well be no happier today than in 1800. Even the freedom we value so highly may be working… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The most important impact of script on human history is precisely this: it has gradually changed the way humans think and view… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans emerge from the womb like molten glass from a furnace. They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“the Code of Hammurabi of c.1776 BC, which served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of ancient Babylonians; and the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just like equality, rights and limited liability companies, liberty is something that people invented and that exists only in their imagination. From… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To the best of our scientific understanding, determinism and randomness have divided the entire cake between them, leaving not even a crumb… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve. Even worse, by encouraging people to view themselves as isolated individuals,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“free individual is just a fictional tale concocted by an assembly of biochemical algorithms. Every moment the biochemical mechanisms of the brain… — 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
