225 Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer

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.

Newlyn does not look like the Cornish towns on either side: Penzance and Mousehole. Those are resort towns where British vacationers practice that peculiarly British pastime of strolling the beaches and walkways, bundled in sweaters and mufflers. But Newlyn is a fishing town - or, increasingly, an out-of-work fishing town.

New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.

The technology never reverses itself. It creates new technology to confront new sets of problems.

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

Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding.

Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.