War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us? — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg! — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
