Mark Kurlansky Quotes

“Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.”

Mark Kurlansky

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

“Philosophie du progrès, “We are”

Mark Kurlansky

Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea

“Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.”

Mark Kurlansky

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

“Without the music to shout over, few people bothered saying anything." (Remarking on a power cut while in a bar in the Dominican Republic)”

Mark Kurlansky

A Continent of Islands" (1992).

“In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques."”

Mark Kurlansky

The Basque History of the World (1999).