913 Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

In 1938 humans were offered three global stories to choose from, in 1968 just two, and in 1998 a single story seemed to prevail. In 2018 we are down to zero.

Capitalism won the Cold War because distributed data processing works better than centralized data processing, at least in periods of accelerating changes.

Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.

For real peace is not the mere absence of war. Real peace is the implausibility of war. There has never been real peace in the world.

If you really want truth, you need to escape the black hole of power and allow yourself to waste a lot of time wandering here and there on the periphery. Revolutionary knowledge rarely makes it to the center, because the center is built on existing knowledge.

If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them, I have no choice but to pursue them constantly.

This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.

As much as we should fear the power of big corporations, history suggests that we are not necessarily better off in the hands of overly mighty governments.

Our once green and blue planet is becoming a concrete and plastic shopping centre.