Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image ““We are conquering you for your own benefit,’ said the Persians.”” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
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“I came to conquer this land and its people, but instead, one of its people conquered me.” — Laura Thalassa Copy Share Image
To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill,… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“Unhappy Persia, that in former age Hast been the seat of mighty Conquerors, That in their prowesse and their policies, Have triumph over Africa.” — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“All your decisions discount the Persians themselves, and that is the mistake of your ignorance and your plotting. To you the Persian is a… — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
“Throughout history the conquerors have always treated the conquered this way. The bad ones need to believe we're inferior to justify the way they… — Michelle Cohen Corasanti Copy Share Image
“Some come just to be entertained, trained and externally maintained. The conquered.” — T.F. Hodge 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
