Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.

An imagined reality is not a lie.

The forager economy provided most people with more interesting lives than agriculture or industry do.

Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing or iron tools.