“Humans first evolved in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, which means ‘Southern Ape’.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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
“For example, the megafauna of New Zealand – which had weathered the alleged ‘climate change’ of c.45,000 years ago without a scratch… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Indeed, 5,000 years ago much of Sumer was owned by imaginary gods such as Enki and Inanna. If gods can possess land… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Fishing villages might have appeared on the coasts of Indonesian islands as early as 45,000 years ago. These may have been the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Seventy thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages – the first permanent settlements in history,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Most people don’t appreciate just how peaceful an era we live in. None of us was alive a thousand years ago, so… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Was the late Neil Armstrong, whose footprint remains intact on the windless moon, happier than the nameless hunter-gatherer who 30,000 years ago… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Why do modern humans love sweets so much? Not because in the early twenty-first century we must gorge on ice cream and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. The… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Organs evolve to perform a particular function, but once they exist, they can be adapted for other usages as well. Mouths, for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It’s a puzzle why we binge on the sweetest and greasiest food we can find, until we consider the eating habits of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Some scholars compare human biochemistry to an air-conditioning system that keeps the temperature constant, come heatwave or snowstorm. Events might momentarily change… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I still remember the day I first came across the Internet. It was back in 1993, when I was in high school.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“True, hundreds of millions may nevertheless go on believing in Islam, Christianity or Hinduism. But numbers alone don’t count for much in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the acestor of all chimpanzees, the other is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“but we have incontrovertible evidence of domesticated dogs from about 15,000 years ago. They may have joined the human pack thousands of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Socialism, which was very up to date a hundred years ago, failed to keep up with the new technology. [...] If Marx… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
About 15,000 years ago, humans colonised America, wiping out in the process about 75% of its large mammals. Numerous other species disappeared… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Yet what happens if the greedy shoemaker increases his profits by paying employees less and increasing their work hours? The standard answer is that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
![“Socialism, which was very up to date a hundred years ago, failed to keep up with the new technology. [...] If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few relating disciples to devote less time to reading Das Kapital and more time to studying the Internet and the human genome.” quote by Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/yuval-noah-harari-100_marx_socialism-which-was-very-up-to-date-a-hu_2335790.jpg)
