The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real questions facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but "What do we want to want?' Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought. Yuval Noah Harari
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  2. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway

  3. The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. - J.r.r. Tolkien

  4. If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. - Leo Tolstoy

  5. Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. - Anonymous

More Quotes By Yuval Noah Harari
  1. I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send. So why do I even let these words begin? Maybe they will soak in one day at the right time. When the readers...

  2. Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

  3. We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle;some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life, some connected through knowledge, some through belief, some connected through wisdom, some through Love, and some connected with no explanation at all. Yet, as spiritual beings having a human...

  4. Basically all the religions, sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!

  5. The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.

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