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“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
― George Bernard Shaw