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> [Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/socrates-was-likewise-right-that-pissing-people-off-is-how-we-first/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

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## More by Mark Kingwell

> [Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/socrates-was-likewise-right-that-pissing-people-off-is-how-we-first/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/how-doe-we-create-the-world-we-want-rather-than-a-world-that-just/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/for-every-apparent-gain-in-short-we-now-observe-a-balancing-danger/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/paradoxically-the-problems-of-politics-often-arise-not-in-the-form-of/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/if-anyone-is-tweeting-right-now-i-m-not-pulling-a-knife-on-david/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/our-desires-are-never-wholly-transparent-even-to-ourselves/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/ambition-is-ever-tempered-by-experience-otherwise-fortune-makes-fools/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/tyranny-is-abhorrent-freedom-benefits-all-whereas-violence-benefits/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/friendship-requires-a-leap-not-of-faith-but-of-regard/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/books-like-lives-are-always-unfinished-even-when-they-end-for-to/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/neiman-s-book-is-written-with-considerable-flair-as-many-critics-have/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/if-you-have-ever-been-accused-of-being-rude-when-you-were-merely/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/politics-is-rather-the-creation-of-the-best-possible-polity-out-of/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/i-hold-to-the-idea-that-civility-understood-as-the-willingness-to/)

[Mark Kingwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kingwell/)

> [We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kingwell/we-don-t-know-what-the-future-will-bring-but-that-s-because-we-are/)

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