Liberalism Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

13 Liberalism quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari’s thirteen lines on liberalism package his broad thinking into a compact form. It’s a handy entry point for anyone curious about his take on the subject.

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“Liberalism will collapse on the day the system knows me better than I know myself.”

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“A huge gulf is opening between liberal humanism and the latest findings of the life sciences, a gulf we cannot ignore much…

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“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve.”

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“At the beginning of the third millennium liberalism is threatened not by the philosophical idea that ‘there are no free individuals’, but…

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“The third threat to liberalism is that some people will remain both indispensable and undecipherable, but they will constitute a small and…

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“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve. Even worse, by encouraging people to view themselves as isolated individuals,…

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“Indeed, even Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and the other champions of the new scientific world view refuse to abandon liberalism. After dedicating…

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“So far we have looked at two of the three practical threats to liberalism: firstly, that humans will lose their value completely;…

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“Splitting humankind into biological castes will destroy the foundations of liberal ideology. Liberalism can coexist with socio-economic gaps. Indeed, since it favours…

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“If scientific discoveries and technological developments split humankind into a mass of useless humans and a small elite of upgraded superhumans, or…

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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…

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“So far we have looked at two of the three practical threats to liberalism: firstly, that humans will lose their value completely;…

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“Liberal politics is based on the idea that the voters know best, and there is no need for Big Brother to tell…

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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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“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order…

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I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of…

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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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