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Yet, in fact, religion has been the third great unifier of humankind, alongside money and empires. — Yuval Noah Harari

The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi. — Yuval Noah Harari

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets. — Yuval Noah Harari

they expect the first mammoth in 5,000 years to be born. — Yuval Noah Harari

The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud.2 Who — Yuval Noah Harari

issued a ban on drug trafficking, but — Yuval Noah Harari

The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any — Yuval Noah Harari

Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained. — Yuval Noah Harari

in many societies more people are in danger of dying from obesity than from starvation. — Yuval Noah Harari

The name 'denarius' became a generic name for coins. — Yuval Noah Harari

Each of us has within ourselves a brilliant ray of light that gives value and meaning to our lives. In — Yuval Noah Harari

One interesting conclusion is that money does indeed bring happiness. But only up to a point, and beyond that point it has little significance. For — Yuval Noah Harari

In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5 — Yuval Noah Harari

how long can we maintain the wall separating the department of biology from the departments of law and political science? — Yuval Noah Harari

Thanks to money, even people who don't know each other and don't trust each other can nevertheless cooperate effectively. — Yuval Noah Harari

European imperialists set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining new knowledge along with new territories. — Yuval Noah Harari

scientists took a run-of-the-mill white rabbit embryo, implanted in its DNA a gene taken from a green fluorescent jellyfish, — Yuval Noah Harari

human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here! — Yuval Noah Harari

the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another. Those — Yuval Noah Harari

{Photo: The Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory.} — Yuval Noah Harari

Most human cooperation networks have been geared towards oppression and exploitation. — Yuval Noah Harari

Consequently, from the very advent of agriculture, worries about the future became major players in the theatre of the human mind. — Yuval Noah Harari

Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction. — Yuval Noah Harari

Those more deeply informed about the period are much more cognisant of the roads not taken. — Yuval Noah Harari

The Human Brain Project, — Yuval Noah Harari

perhaps happiness is synchronising one's personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. — Yuval Noah Harari

the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians. — Yuval Noah Harari

We no longer say, 'It's in their blood.' We say, 'It's in their culture.' Thus — Yuval Noah Harari

History is often shaped by small groups of forward-looking innovators rather than by the backward-looking masses. Ten — Yuval Noah Harari

Even Russia nowadays pretends to be a democracy. Victory — Yuval Noah Harari

Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics. — Yuval Noah Harari

Cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them. — Yuval Noah Harari

Russian, Japanese and Korean scientists has recently mapped the genome of ancient mammoths, — Yuval Noah Harari

The average ancient forager could turn a flint stone into a spear point within minutes. — Yuval Noah Harari

Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then? — Yuval Noah Harari

Another is that the findings demonstrate that happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather, — Yuval Noah Harari

we members of one of its final generations should devote some time to answering one last question: — Yuval Noah Harari

The insight of polytheism is conducive to far-reaching religious tolerance. — Yuval Noah Harari

They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi. The — Yuval Noah Harari

If the curtain is indeed about to drop on Sapiens history, — Yuval Noah Harari

The data-processing system invented by the Sumerians is called 'writing'. — Yuval Noah Harari

money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised. — Yuval Noah Harari

At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It — Yuval Noah Harari

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. — Yuval Noah Harari

This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. — Yuval Noah Harari

The idea of spilling blood for the sake of oil would have seemed ludicrous. — Yuval Noah Harari

Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother. — Yuval Noah Harari

If our minds are those of hunter-gatherers, our cuisine is that of ancient farmers. — Yuval Noah Harari

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. — Yuval Noah Harari

When the pope in Rome heard the news from France, he was so overcome by joy that he organised festive prayers to celebrate — Yuval Noah Harari

Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed. — Yuval Noah Harari

Banks and governments print money, but ultimately, it is the scientists who foot the bill. — Yuval Noah Harari

If modernity has a motto, it is 'shit happens'. On — Yuval Noah Harari

Every point in history is a crossroads. A — Yuval Noah Harari

What's undeniable is that monotheists have a hard time dealing with the Problem of Evil. — Yuval Noah Harari

The social norms that sustained them were based neither on ingrained instincts nor on personal acquaintances, but rather on belief in shared myths. — Yuval Noah Harari

Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing — Yuval Noah Harari

the alpha male wins his position by building a stable coalition with other males and females, not through mindless violence. In — Yuval Noah Harari

Two million years ago, genetic mutations resulted in the appearance of a new human species called Homo erectus. — Yuval Noah Harari

Just like equality, rights and limited liability companies, liberty is something that people invented and that exists only in their imagination. From — Yuval Noah Harari

DNA is not an autocrat. Animal behaviour is also influenced by environmental factors and individual quirks. — Yuval Noah Harari

The human species and the global economy may well keep growing, but many more individuals may live in hunger and want. — Yuval Noah Harari

The supreme commandment of the rich is 'Invest!' The supreme commandment of the rest of us is 'Buy!' The — Yuval Noah Harari

200 The Industrial Revolution. Family and community are replaced by state and market. Massive extinction of plants and animals. — Yuval Noah Harari

To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it. — Yuval Noah Harari

Today, the society called New Zealand is composed of 4.5 million Sapiens and 50 million sheep. — Yuval Noah Harari

When the gods created man, Gilgamesh had learned, they set death as man's inevitable destiny, and man must learn to live with it. — Yuval Noah Harari

Polytheism is inherently open-minded, and rarely persecutes 'heretics' and 'infidels'. — Yuval Noah Harari

which will enable either a human or an automatic operator to control the insect's movements remotely and to absorb and transmit information. — Yuval Noah Harari

We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem, — Yuval Noah Harari

The first principle of Buddhism is 'Suffering exists. How do I escape it?' Buddhism — Yuval Noah Harari

Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something about it. — Yuval Noah Harari

A German vegetarian might well prefer to marry a French vegetarian than a German carnivore. — Yuval Noah Harari

The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more. — Yuval Noah Harari

about 40 million Chinese, a tenth of the country's population, were opium addicts. — Yuval Noah Harari

Intelligent design becomes the basic principle of life? Homo sapiens is replaced by superhumans? — Yuval Noah Harari

A lot of evidence indicates that we are destroying the foundations of human prosperity in an orgy of reckless consumption. — Yuval Noah Harari

To describe 'how' means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another. — Yuval Noah Harari

If the entire system works by electric signals passing from here to there, why the hell do we also need to feel fear? — Yuval Noah Harari

The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes — Yuval Noah Harari

Historians study the past not in order to repeat it, but in order to be liberated from it. — Yuval Noah Harari

Neanderthals made their exit roughly 30,000 years ago. The — Yuval Noah Harari

A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics. — Yuval Noah Harari

Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world. — Yuval Noah Harari

castigate Middle East experts for not anticipating the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011. — Yuval Noah Harari

Harlow's monkeys, — Yuval Noah Harari

To explain 'why' means to find causal connections that account for the occurrence of this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others. — Yuval Noah Harari

marrow. Some researchers believe this was our original — Yuval Noah Harari

They argue for a reverse correlation between human capabilities and happiness. Power — Yuval Noah Harari

The Cognitive Revolution is accordingly the point when history declared its independence from biology. — Yuval Noah Harari

between 1885 and 1908 the pursuit of growth and profits cost the lives of 6 million individuals (at least 20 per cent of the Congo's population). — Yuval Noah Harari

This network of artificial instincts is called culture'. — Yuval Noah Harari

Sociological research has shown that the maximum 'natural' size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. — Yuval Noah Harari

Yet the idea that all humans are equal is also a myth. — Yuval Noah Harari

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. — Yuval Noah Harari

The Great Pyramid of Giza. The kind of thing rich people in ancient Egypt did with their money. — Yuval Noah Harari

Muslim caliphs Arabicised this name and issued 'dinars'. — Yuval Noah Harari

into our genes. Today we may be — Yuval Noah Harari

Biology enables, Culture forbids. — Yuval Noah Harari

The forager economy provided most people with more interesting lives than agriculture or industry — Yuval Noah Harari