War is asymmetrical: making peace requires agreement from many people, but making war requires only that one side decide to fight, making war a contagious invention that spreads even among peaceful populations.

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Yuval Noah Harari

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To make peace, you need a lot of people to agree. To make war, one person is enough...even if you have 50 tribes who are peaceful, and one tribe which is warlike, that's enough. The war will spread.

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Yuval Noah Harari - Are Humans Superior to Other Life forms?Intelligence Squared
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:59:13 PM

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