“During pre-industrial warfare more than 90 percent of war dead were killed by starvation, cold and disease rather than by weapons.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The global centre of power shifted to Europe only between 1750 and 1850, when Europeans humiliated the Asian powers in a series… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“THE ANCIENT ROMANS were used to being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history’s great empires, they could lose battle after… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“From the dawn of agriculture until this very day, billions of humans armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It turns out that in the year following the 9/11 attacks, despite all the talk of terrorism and war, the average person… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If something terrible happened – such as war, plague or drought – people consoled themselves that ‘We all play a role in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Before answering this question, we need to say a few more words about famine, plague and war. The claim that we are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Designer babies may one day become as technologically feasible as murdering people to harvest their organs – yet remain as peripheral. Just… — 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
