Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about… — 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
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
For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You have to know how to co-operate with other people if you want to stay alive and raise children. And to do… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here -… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. 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
