Author of quotes: Yuval Noah Harari. Page 1

We can easily agree that the separation of commoners and aristocrats - <...> imagination.

Money goes to money, the poor get poorer. <...> Those who case was allowed to pull out the trump card, most likely, will pull out a trump card again, and the losers lose again.

Stability reserve for fools.

The threat of nuclear Apocalypse reinforces the pacifist sentiment, with the spread of pacifism war is receding and blossoms trade, trade increases the profitability and unprofitability of the world war.

Now parental authority is negligible. The General opinion, professional psychologists, legislators - all tend to release children from the obligation to obey their parents, but even in 50 years you can blame on them blame for their own failures and misdeeds. In the court of the name of Freud's mommy and daddy as much chance of acquittal, as was the defendants in Stalinist show trials.

Previously, young was acquainted the house, money was passed from father of the groom to the bride's father. Now flirting in bars and restaurants, and the money is transferred from a young couple to the waiters.

If you collect them [people] all together and place on a gigantic scale, the total weight will exceed 300 million
tons. If on the same scale to put all of our livestock - cows, pigs, sheep, goats, and poultry, their weight will be about 700 million tons. The total mass of all surviving wild animals, from porcupines and penguins to elephants and whales, at least 100 million tons.

The oil-rich country with a despotic government, internal wars and corrupt judicial system receives a low credit rating and remain relatively poor because will not be able to collect sufficient capital to complete the development wells.

Surprisingly, the Empire built by bankers and merchants in tuxedos and cylinders, were stronger empires built by kings and aristocrats in gold embroidered robes and shining armour. And the thing is that a merchant Empire is much smarter than funded their gains: taxes do not want to pay anybody, but invest everything willingly.

The imperialists claimed that their sprawling state - is not an instrument of exploitation, but in the words of Kipling, "the white burden". In other words, it turns out, the Europeans extended their power to the whole world of altruistic reasons, for the sake of non-European peoples.

Over the last 500 years science has created many miracles, mainly thanks to the willingness of various government agencies, corporations, foundations and private sponsors to invest billions in research. These billions have done for the mapping of the universe, mapping the planet and cataloguing of the animal Kingdom more than Galileo Galilei, Christopher Columbus and Charles Darwin.

For scientists, death is not inevitable, but rather a technical problem. People are dying not because it is appointed by the gods, but due to various technical failures: heart attack, cancer, infection. And every technical problem should be the solution.

Before the scientific revolution most human cultures did not know of the cult of progress. The Golden age they put in the past, future improvements did not anticipate: the world is either stagnant or deteriorating. Loyalty to tradition is the only chance to regain the glorious past, and human ingenuity is capable of except to slightly improve one or another aspect of everyday life;

The attractiveness of "exact" Sciences is growing steadily, and are considered accurate ones that can not do without mathematics. Even such areas
knowledge that traditionally belonged to the Humanities, like linguistics or science of the human soul (psychology), increasingly rely on mathematical methods and would also be considered accurate.