Mark Kurlansky Quotes

The first pan-European peace organization was established in Geneva in 1830, but

The first pan-European peace organization was established in Geneva in 1830, but

Mark Kurlansky

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

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

Mark Kurlansky

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About Author

Mark Kurlansky (December 7, 1948) is an American journalist and author who has written a number of books of fiction and nonfiction. His 1997 book, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997), was an international bestseller and was translated into more than fifteen languages. His book Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea (2006) was the nonfiction winner of the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Mark Kurlansky Quotes

The first pan-European peace organization was established in Geneva in 1830, but

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

About Author

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...

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too...

For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings because they came from the east, a...

Weak as water.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. —MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND QUENTIN FIORE, The Medium Is the Massage, 196...

Baby formula contains three salts: magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, and sodium chloride.

At times soldiers were even paid in salt, which was the origin of the word salary and the expression worth his salt or earning his salt. In fact, the Latin word sal became the French word solde, meani...

At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.

Jesus was seen as dangerous because he rejected not only warfare and killing but any kind of force. Those in authority saw this as a challenge. How could there be authority without force?

Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even tacitly take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the g...

Kement a zo fall, a gar ar sall—Everything that is not good asks to be salted. Everything from meat to butter to potatoes was salted. Salt was Brittany’s cheapest product, the one everyone could affor...

They leaned over and scooped up handfuls of salt. The police tried to forcibly remove the salt from their hands. A crowd of dissidents ran onto the beach, picked up salt, and were taken away by the po...

If all poor people refused to fight, he argued, the rich would have no army and there would be no war.

Ketchup derives its name from the Indonesian fish and soy sauce kecap ikan. The names of several other Indonesian sauces also include the word kecap, pronounced KETCHUP, which means a base of dark, th...

Ketchup became a tomato sauce, originally called tomato ketchup in America, which is appropriate since the tomato is an American plant, brought to Europe by Hernán Cortés, embraced in the Mediterranea...

Often the inventor that history remembers is not the true inventor, but the one who made the idea commercially successful. Thomas Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb either.

A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered that the bodies of people who took their own lives be salted, brought...