Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image ““As bureaucracies accumulate power, they become immune to their own mistakes.”” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Those in government are especially susceptible to the corruption of power, because government is institutionalized coercion.” — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“every leader who strived for power somehow ended up corrupted in the process.” — Morgan Rice Copy Share Image
“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“For some authorities it isn't that they're evil - or even that they're incompetent - but rather they just don't care enough; and not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.” — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.” — Nicole Guillaume Copy Share Image
“...that no matter how good their intentions, with absolute power comes corruption.” — Gennifer Albin Copy Share Image
“They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing.” — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
“It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.” — Norman Spinrad 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
