“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The threat of nuclear holocaust fosters pacifism; when pacifism spreads, war recedes and trade flourishes; and trade increases both the profits of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Christians, Catholics, Armenians, Copts, Jews and even the occasional Hindu lived side by side in relative harmony. Though they had their share… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the key to happiness is neither the race nor the gold medal, but rather combining the right doses of excitement and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Nobel Peace Prize to end all peace prizes should have been given to Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow architects of the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“country devoid of natural resources, but which enjoys peace, a fair judicial system and a free government is likely to receive a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The late modern era has seen unprecedented levels not only of violence and horror, but also of peace and tranquillity. Charles Dickens… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Most people don’t appreciate just how peaceful an era we live in. None of us was alive a thousand years ago, so… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and our current values, humanity’s next targets are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — 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
