Daniel

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The French Empire was more stubborn. Its collapse involved bloody rearguard actions in Vietnam and Algeria that cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Yet the French, too, retreated from the rest of their dominions quickly and peacefully, leaving behind orderly states rather than a chaotic free-for-all.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“ST PETERSBURG – It’s early February 1992, and an official car from the city administration is slowly driving down the main street of the city.”
― Catherine Belton, Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind