Yuval Noah Harari

Judaism had little to offer other nations, and throughout most of its existence... [was] not... a missionary religion.., [but] a 'local monotheism".

The... money in the world is about $60 trillion, yet... coins and bank notes is less than $6 trillion. More than 90% percent of all money... [>]$50 trillion... in our accounts... exists only on computer servers.

When Constantine assumed the throne in 306, Christianity was little more than an esoteric Eastern sect.

The first empire... was the of Sargon the Great...

[T]he majority of ancient religions were local and exclusive.., believed in local deties and spirits, and had no interest in converting the... human race.

Today... there is an irresistible urge to study the exact sciences - defined... 'exact' by their... mathematical tools.

Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad would have been bewildered if... told... that... to understand the... mind and cure its illness you must... study statistics.

The religious wars between Catholics and Protestants that swept Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are... notorious. ...[T]hey disagreed about the nature of... [Christ's] love.

Christian success served as a model for... seventh century... Islam.

[W]hy study history? ...[It] is not a means of making accurate predictions. We study history... to widen... horizons, to understand that our present... is... [not] inevitable, and that we... have many more possibilities before us...

The first monotheist religion known... appeared in Egypt, c.1350 BC, when Pharaoh Akhenaten declared... one of the minor deties... ... supreme power ruling the universe.

The followers of Christ and... Allah killed each other by the thousands, devastated fields and orchards, and turned prosperous cities into smouldering ruins...