“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our… — 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… — 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
“Some religions, such as Christianity and Nazism, have killed millions out of burning hatred. Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The supreme value of this new religion is ‘information flow’. If life is the movement of information, and if we think that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“All too often people confuse religion with superstition, spirituality, belief in supernatural powers or belief in gods. Religion is none of these… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Many previous religions gained enormous popularity and power despite their factual inaccuracies.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“as collective institutions, science and religion prefer order and power over truth.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Data religion now says that your every word and action is part of the great dataflow, that the algorithms are constantly watching… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The first universal order to appear was economic: the monetary order. The second universal order was political: the imperial order. The third… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits. Money is the only trust system created… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Even plants and animals were mechanised. Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“and there are even cases of religiously inspired human sacrifice.” — 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
“Theist religions focus on the worship of gods. Humanist religions worship humanity, or more correctly, Homo sapiens. Humanism is a belief that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Every religion, ideology and creed has its shadow, and no matter which creed you follow you should acknowledge your shadow and avoid… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A large part of our artistic creativity, our political commitment and our religious piety is fuelled by the fear of death.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The crucial historical role of religion has been to give superhuman legitimacy to these fragile structures. Religions assert that our laws are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans want to merge into the data flow because when you are part of the data flow you are part of something… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century we will create more powerful fictions and more totalitarian religions than in any previous era. With the help… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“...Money is also the apogee of human tolerance; money is more open-minded than language, state laws, culture codes, religious beliefs, and social… — 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
