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“us. Christians and Muslims who could not agree on religious beliefs could nevertheless agree on a monetary belief, because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“When the Agricultural Revolution opened opportunities for the creation of crowded cities and mighty empires, people invented stories about great gods, motherlands and joint stock companies to provide the needed social links. While human evolution was crawling at its usual snail’s pace, the human imagination was building astounding networks of mass cooperation, unlike any other ever seen on earth.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Even if the market offers a good price, certain things just aren’t done. Parents mustn’t sell their children into slavery; a devout Christian must not commit a mortal sin; a loyal knight must never betray his lord; and ancestral tribal lands shall never be sold to foreigners.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“the more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov