“Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health. People with strong families who live in tight-knit and supportive communities are significantly happier than people whose families are dysfunctional and who have never found (or never sought) a community to be part of.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Evil consists in intentionally behaving in ways that harm, abuse, demean, dehumanize, or destroy innocent others—or using one’s authority and systemic power to encourage or permit others to do so on your behalf.”
― The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
― The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
“What enables banks – and the entire economy – to survive and flourish is our trust in the future. This trust is the sole backing for most of the money in the world.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“We do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
― Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
― Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
“Science, industry and military technology intertwined only with the advent of the capitalist system and the Industrial Revolution. Once this relationship was established, however, it quickly transformed the world.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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