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Yuval Noah Harari on Memorial Day

born 1976 Israel

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Wars are not a pub brawl. They are complex projects that require an extraordinary degree of organisation, cooperation and appeasement.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

International wars became rare only after 1945, largely thanks to the new threat of nuclear annihilation.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Wars are not a pub brawl. ...[A]n aggressive brute is often the worst choice to run a war.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

The global centre of power shifted to Europe only between 1750 and 1850, when Europeans... in a series of wars... conquered large parts of Asia.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yuval Noah Harari (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.