{"author":"Mark Kurlansky","author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule.' Clarence Birdseye.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["biography","non-fiction"],"id":55153,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["industrialism","peace","war"],"id":58017,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... The belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["environmentalism","fishing","misconceptions","nature","oceans"],"id":83374,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["culture","engagement","even-with","heritage","relevance"],"id":209271,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["persecution","suffering"],"id":276781,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["conflict","dreams","history","vision","war"],"id":278176,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["culture","evangelism","influence","media","technology"],"id":280184,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["heritage","identity","legacy"],"id":316964,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated.Imagine twentieth-century Italy coming to terms with the fall of the Roman empire or Egypt with the last pharaoh abdicating in 1912. For China, the last century has been a period of transition - dramatic change and perpetual revolution.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["china","civilization","egypt","modernity","rome","world-history"],"id":375385,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"},{"text":"It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968.","author":"Mark Kurlansky","tags":["demagoguery","leadership","politics"],"id":392191,"author_id":"Mark+Kurlansky"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}