“We do not trust the stranger, or the next-door neighbour – we trust the coin they hold. If they run out of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous to trust or future to market forces, because these forces do what's good for the market rather than what's… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“What enables banks – and the entire economy – to survive and flourish is our trust in the future. This trust is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“When everything is convertible, and when trust depends on anonymous coins and cowry shells, it corrodes local traditions, intimate relations and human… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The way out of the trap was discovered only in the modern era, with the appearance of a new system based on… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“People are willing to do such things when they trust the figments of their collective imagination. Trust is the raw material from… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Trade may seem a very pragmatic activity, one that needs no fictive basis. Yet the fact is that no animal other than… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Money has an even darker side. For although money builds universal trust between strangers, this trust is invested not in humans, communities… — 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
