Rob Klas

“So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It turns out that in the year following the 9/11 attacks, despite all the talk of terrorism and war, the average person was more likely to kill himself than to be killed by a terrorist, a soldier or a drug dealer.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“There are schools of thought and political movements that seek to purge human culture of imperialism, leaving behind what they claim is a pure, authentic civilisation, untainted by sin. These ideologies are at best naïve; at worst they serve as disingenuous window-dressing for crude nationalism and bigotry.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind