Politics Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

“The only sure way to stop global warming is to stop economic growth, which no government is willing to do.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Without government planning, economic resources and scientific research, individuals will not get far in their quest for happiness.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“politicians.’ It is much easier to live with the fantasy, because the fantasy gives meaning to the suffering. Priests discovered this principle…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Terrorism is both a global political problem and an internal psychological mechanism.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Like a government diverting money from defense to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Heavy taxation means that a large part of all available capital accumulated in one place – the state coffers – and consequently…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There are schools of thought and political movements that seek to purge human culture of imperialism, leaving behind what they claim is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“No one was lying when, in 2011, the UN demanded that the Libyan government respect the human rights of its citizens, even…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Precisely because technology is now moving so fast, and parliaments and dictators alike are overwhelmed by data they cannot process quickly enough,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

In the 1990s and 2000s, the liberal story shaped not only the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The old 20th-century political model of Left vs. Right is now basically irrelevant, and the real divide today is between global and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“concepts of pollution and purity have played a leading role in enforcing social and political divisions and have been exploited by numerous…

— Yuval Noah Harari

For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Precisely because technology is now moving so fast, and parliaments and dictators alike are overwhelmed by data they cannot process quickly enough,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“As the twenty-first century unfolds, nationalism is fast losing ground. More and more people believe that all of humankind is the legitimate…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When Hitler appealed to the German voters and asked for their trust, he could muster only one argument in his favour: his…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The individual will not be crushed by Big Brother; it will disintegrate from within. Today corporations and governments pay homage to my…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted? How, for…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“How, then, do terrorists manage to dominate the headlines and change the political situation throughout the world? By provoking their enemies to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We take this reality for granted, thinking it is natural, inevitable and immutable. We forget that our world was created by an…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Such racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Consequently, in 1958 the Chinese government was informed that annual grain production was 50 per cent more than it actually was. Believing…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Capitalism began as a theory about how the economy functions. It was both descriptive and prescriptive – it offered an account of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Just as human politicians on election campaigns go around shaking hands and kissing babies, so aspirants to the top position in a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“1. Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few remaining disciples to devote less time to reading Das…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Present-day democratic structures just cannot collect and process the relevant data fast enough, and most voters don’t understand biology and cybernetics well…

— Yuval Noah Harari

In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional, and they are almost always caused by human…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the late 1830s the Chinese government issued a ban on drug trafficking, but British drug merchants simply ignored the law. Chinese…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The Portuguese government – which had little desire to accept any of these refugees – sent agents to escort the disobedient consul…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the ethical and political ideas of Locke, Rousseau and Jefferson. However, once the heretical scientific insights are translated into everyday technology, routine…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Precisely because technology is now moving so fast, and parliaments and dictators alike are overwhelmed by data they cannot process quickly enough,…

— Yuval Noah Harari