Kurlansky Nonviolence Quotes & Sayings

The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action. — Mark Kurlansky

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked. — Mark Kurlansky

The only possible explanation for the absence of a proactive word to express nonviolence is that not only the political establishments but the cultural and intellectual establishments of all societies have viewed nonviolence as a marginal point of view, a fanciful rejection of one of society's key components, a repudiation of something important but not a serious force in itself. It is not an authentic concept but simply the abnegation of something else. It has been marginalized because it is one of the rare truly revolutionary ideas, an idea that seeks to completely change the nature of society, a threat to the established order. And it has always been treated as something profoundly dangerous. — Mark Kurlansky

Nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work. — Mark Kurlansky

Yet they were so tempting. Because they all had those blissful views of the river. Mum liked to sit on her balcony, reading Swedish thrillers, drinking supermarket Chardonnay. — S.K. Tremayne

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Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination. — Mark Kurlansky

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles. — Jared Harris

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. — Epicurus

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted — Mary Renault