913 Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

Neste momento de crise, a batalha decisiva trava-se dentro da própria humanidade.

Ponad sto lat, po tym jak Nietzsche ogłosił, że Bóg umarł, wydaję się, że właśnie wraca. To jednak fatamorgana. Bóg faktycznie umarł, tylko trochę musi potrwać uprzątnięcie zwłok.

In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.

The hand of the market is blind as well as invisible, and left to its own devices it may fail to do anything at all about the threat of global warming or the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence.

Some of the cultural, legal and political disparities between men and women reflect the obvious biological differences between the sexes. Childbearing has always been women’s job, because men don’t have wombs. Yet around this hard universal kernel, every society accumulated layer upon layer of cultural ideas and norms that have little to do with biology. Societies associate a host of attributes with masculinity and femininity that, for the most part, lack a firm biological basis.

Na verdade, o nosso amado é apenas outro ser humano, sendo a sua essência igual à das multidões que ignoramos todos os dias no comboio e no supermercado; mas, para nós, ele ou ela parece infinito, e é de bom grado que nos perdemos nessa infinitude.

Los sapiens dominan el mundo porque solo ellos son capaces de tejer una red intersubjetiva de sentido: una red de leyes, fuerzas, entidades y lugares que existen puramente en su imaginación común

Much of the vaunted material wealth that shields us from disease and famine was accumulated at the expense of laboratory monkeys, dairy cows and conveyor-belt chickens. Over the last two centuries tens of billions of them have been subjected to a regime of industrial exploitation whose cruelty has no precedent in the annals of planet earth. If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history.

When a thousand people believe some made-up story for a month - that's fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years - that's religion, and we are admonished to call it fake news in oder not to for the feelings of the faithful.