Cortes Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image ““After all, Cortés had no more than 550 Spaniards with him.”” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cortes
“Ten years after Cortés landed in Mexico, Pizarro arrived on the shore of the Inca Empire. He had far fewer soldiers than Cortés –… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The arrival of the Spaniards must have been like the arrival of people from Mars to us would be today. The shock must have… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“That was the end of my adventure in Central America. By the lakeshore in Granada, Nicaragua, I decided to turn for home. I wondered… — Patrick Marnham Copy Share Image
“Certainly the Andalusians were very ignorant. Few if any of them could read, and they seemed not even to know the one thing that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Basta con que uno hable español pero no sea de España, y voilà, pertenece a una raza llamada hispana.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners are alike appalled by their inefficiency, above all their maddening… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When the natives questioned Cortés as to why the Spaniards had such a passion for gold, the conquistador answered, ‘Because I and my companions… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Are you telling me that the king of Spain turned up his nose at this invention?” Carlos replied: “I don’t suppose King Felipe even… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“...these Spaniards are all an odd set; the very word Spaniard has a curious, conspirator, Guy-Fawkish twang to it.” — Herman Melville 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
“From that imbalance rose the tragic results of the coming together of two worlds. It was the extermination of an ancient dream by the… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
