Yuval Noah Harari Quotes
"Clarity is power.""The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference""There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison""Religion can bring stability and order to a country, but it can also drive them into explosive conflict""Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised""You can never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven""Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question""How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined""Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees, and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations, and corporations.""The human capacity for cooperation has been the key to our success.""Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of wealth, health, or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.""For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little.""Capitalism has not been a single coherent economic theory. It is instead a loose collection of doctrines and courses of action.""One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.""We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.""Homo sapiens is the only species on Earth capable of imagining things that do not really exist.""Humans are the only animals that can cooperate both flexibly and in very large numbers.""In the 21st century, the real battle will be between artificial intelligence and our collective intelligence.""We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor eternal, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine""The power of humans depends on the power of our stories"
