History-of-mankind Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image ““Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language.”” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History-of-mankind
“The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.” — Ken Bugul Copy Share Image
“humans live in a world where it’s words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“If you want to conquer civilizations, restructure their languages. Long time ago, even god used this strategy to rule over mankind.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“the crucial factor in our conquest of the world was our ability to connect many humans to one another.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love.” — Imania Margria Copy Share Image
“he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world they had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.” — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
“Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“There are those who eagerly learn another language to be one with another culture, then there are those morons who insist on the exclusive… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“we can congratulate ourselves on the unprecedented accomplishments of modern Sapiens only if we completely ignore the fate of all other animals.” — 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 particular nations as the engines of human progress, and concluded that these nations ought to bludgeon or even exterminate anyone standing in their way. It should be remembered, though, that Hitler and the Nazis represent only… — 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 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, live inside the body of their hosts. They multiply and spread from one host to the other, feeding off their hosts, weakening them, and sometimes even killing them. As long as the hosts live long enough… — 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 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
“Years later, as a professor, Martin would try to find the words to articulate the power of togetherness in a world where togetherness had been corrupted -- and to explore the effect of the music, the surprising lengths the people had gone to to hear it and to play it, as evidence that music, and art in general, are basic… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share
“History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“History is not a bad thing. It just reminds us what to do and what not to do in the future.” — Phil MItchell Copy Share Image
“When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.” — Khuswant Singh Copy Share Image
“Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share
“History shapes the lives of all men, women and children ... sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.” — Lynda I Fisher Copy Share Image
“Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds,… — Eric Hansen Copy Share Image
“History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward” — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share
“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naive as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no such thing as market free of all political bias. The most important economic resource is trust in the future, and this resource is constantly threatened by thieves and charlatans. Markets by themselves offer no protection against fraud, theft,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything.” Edward Johnston” — Richard Puz Copy Share Image
“So perhaps happiness is synchronizing one's personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is in line… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
