

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Biology enables, Culture forbids.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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

“our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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