Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

How many, even of the better sort, would choose to be slaves to those above them, provided they might exercise an arbitrary and tyrannical rule over all below them?

I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them.

I've got all the tools to make it hard for anyone, especially someone that's a division lower than me.

You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.